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General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, French commander in Indo-China: "Without these [French] troops, this country would be enslaved overnight to Communist tyranny. Even if some naive people do not see the danger, we must stand against it. There is no neutral...
...honorable withdrawal under gunfire because of overwhelming odds." ¶ "Try to promote democracy, land reform and an increase in production and living standards in all non-Communist countries, especially those threatened by Communist aggression." ¶ Stand by to help with air and naval forces if the Communists strike in Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula or the Near East. Get Britain and France to make the preponderant contributions of land forces for those areas "to compensate for their relative failure to help in the Korean struggle." ¶ Take all the allies to be found, including Tito, Franco and Chiang Kaishek. "They...
...several reasons for staying in Korea, perhaps the best was the pinning down of many of Red China's best troops, which would otherwise be free for aggression elsewhere (for example, in Indo-China...
General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, sent out from Paris a month ago to put backbone into the crumbling French forces in Indo-China, last week threw 12,000 of his soldiers into a counterattack against the Reds. He carefully pointed out that it was not the big offensive he hoped to launch, but only an operation de degagement to relieve pressure on the northeastern flank of the French-held Red River delta. Communist probing attacks have penetrated perilously close to Hanoi, threatened to cut the city off from the supply port of Haiphong...
...facts, hard to come by in a stringent news blackout, would have to speak a lot louder before the West could find grounds for optimism in Indo-China...