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There are some severe things to be said of past and present French attitudes in Indo-China. But now it is the French army that is keeping Indo-China out of Communist hands. In Indo-China, France has committed one-quarter of her navy and more than half of her flying personnel. Her army of 150,000 in Indo-China includes her finest professional officers and troops, who would be of incalculable value in Korea, who are desperately needed in France for the defense of Europe...
...Strong Are the Reds? The military situation in Indo-China is not bad. A bleak way of putting it would be to say that the situation in southeast Asia has deteriorated so much that Indo-China emerges as the West's strong point in this part of the world...
Viet Nam, as the Indo-Chinese call their country, is shaped like the load which millions of her barefooted peasants carry over their shoulders: two bulging baskets at either end of a thin pole. One bulge is northern Viet Nam (Tonkin), and the other southern Viet Nam (Cochin China). In the slender central region (An-nam), the mountains ripple almost down to the coast. Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces terrorize the coastal plains. In the south, terrorists make life unpleasant in the crowded Saigon region, and the Communist Vietminh haunts the marshes between the numberless arms...
...Show. The Vietminh, completely dominated by the Communist Party of Indo-China, is a state as well as an army, recognized by the U.S.S.R. and her satellites, though the government has no capital and dares not sit for two successive days in the same place. Its chief is a 60-year-old Tonkinese agitator named Nguyen* Tat Thanh, who has a dozen aliases, of which the best known is Ho Chi Minh (One Who Shines...
...gaudy revolutionary career in Britain, France, Russia, China and Indo-China. Today, Ho Chi Minh is a great figurehead whose prestige as a "liberator" still stands high, even outside the areas he controls. But his star in the Communist firmament has waned. His health is poor (tuberculosis). He has traveled too far, and seen too much, and talked to too many people to have the rigidly closed type of mind required of a top party militant in time of war. He is one of those international Communist bosses-France's Maurice Thorez is another-who retain titular leadership mainly...