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Germany and Austria, and the overseas territories, including war-torn Indo-China. Stern, tireless General de Lattre de Tassigny had struggled hard to reorganize the French army and instill into it a new self-respect. The fact remained that at home it still trained with wooden guns and that even with overseas forces it could put in the field only five to nine ill-equipped combat divisions. France had about 1,000 planes, all of them worthless for combat service...
...this case just his native intelligence and a picture of the culprit facing the other way. For an hilarious moment, the patrons have visions of Powell prowling the globe in search of a man whose pate is familiar, when a clue turns up which sends him scurrying off to Indo-china...
...victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
With China falling, Burma in chaos and Indo-China locked in civil war, the West might have been expected to rejoice at the Dutch victory. Instead, W. R. Hodgson, representing Australia at the United Nations, cried: "[This] is worse than what Hitler did to The Netherlands." This immoderate expression went further than the official stands of the Western powers. Nevertheless, adverse criticism of the Dutch move was widespread...
...calculated risk we had to take." The Dutch also knew that the risk was not too great; had not the British themselves sent several units of the Guards Brigade to Malaya to suppress a Communist rebellion? Were not the French and their Foreign Legion fighting a war in Indo-China...