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...China Foreign Office spokesman last week charged French air and ground forces in Indo-China with "provocative attacks on Chinese territory." Warned the Reds: "Our border troops have been instructed to hold the frontier firmly and to deliver counterblows to the provocateurs." In Moncay, the only remaining French-held outpost on China's border, TIME Correspondent Eric Gibbs reported an ominous quiet...
...confidence last night in a parliamentary storm on the eve of Premier Rene Pleven's flight to confer with Attlee. Communists and extreme right-wingers attacked the administration but were defeated when Ploven's government received a comfortable margin of 347 votes to 184 on alleged irregularities in their Indo-China defense...
...example, the Indo-China war, which has cost countless human suffering, and which may yet take on much larger proportions, could have been won without a soldier or a gun. Eighty percent of the followers of Ho Chih-Minh are non-Communist nationalist, who could have been our anti-Communist friends has we not financed and supplied the war which denies their independence, but instead spent the same millions toward helping them reconstruct and reform their country...
Recent cabinet meetings on the Indo-China crisis have been one long duel between Minister for the Associated States Jean Letourneau and Defense Minister Jules Moch. Letourneau is responsible for Indo-China, but he has lacked power to prosecute the war. Privately he is reported to have complained: "Whenever I need a uniform button I have to apply to Jules Moch for it. Whenever I need an additional franc I have to beg [Finance Minister] Maurice Petsche...
Last week Letourneau was firm. If he was to continue to handle the Indo-Chinese affair he wanted power to 1) dispose the armed forces in Indo-China as needed to fight the war, and 2) dispense the budget voted for Indo-China without consulting Petsche. Finance Minister Petsche gave in, but Moch put up a two-day fight. At week's end Letourneau appeared to have won. A laconic communiqué said that Letourneau "will be in charge of all the necessary measures" to carry through the government's Indo-China policy...