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Russia partially compensates for its lack of military mobility by control of the Communist Party throughout the world. The party carries the Red offensive into distant lands, dupes other peoples into fighting Russia's battles and ties up (as in Korea and Indo-China) the armed forces of the West. The Communist Party is the most effective substitute for sea power the world has ever seen...
...buildup of their forces before a major push. In the face of the Korean winter and the strength of the U.N. armies facing them, this seemed unlikely. A better guess was that the Chinese in North Korea were there to pin down supplies that might otherwise be used in Indo-China, and to extort political concessions from...
Communist Ho Chi Minh's army, after seven weeks of success, has the French forces in northern Indo-China bottled up around the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong. A full-scale attack is expected. Are the French strong enough to hold out? Seeking an answer to this and related questions, TIME'S London Bureau Chief Eric Gibbs flew into Hanoi last fortnight...
...Paris last week, cabinet ministers and generals of the Supreme War Council decided to end their bureaucratic haggling and fight Ho Chi Minh's Communists on the basis of full-scale war. France would send to Indo-China: 1) 50,000 more troops, 2) more tanks & guns, 3) warships. An appeal would be made to the U.S. to speed up military-aid airplanes. At the same time, General Marcel Alessandri, 65-year-old infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate...
...United States does not give a great deal of more active support to Indo-China, the country will probably eventually fall into Communist hands. If America does send troops and equipment, active Chinese intervention may again greet us, this time supported by a hostile native population...