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...When a Deputy paid tribute to 'the sons of France who have fallen in Indo-China, innocent victims of the Viet Nam's stab in the back,' all Deputies save the Communists rose in silent homage. Thorez half rose, then subsided...
...least temporarily. Soviet nationalism had become less aggressive. But the other, the ideological barrel, was still loaded and aimed. "In most of the world, effective popular leadership is in the hands of persons who are sympathetic to Soviet Communist doctrines." Spreading revolutionary movements in China, India, Dutch Indonesia, French Indo-China, Latin America, France, Italy gave Communists reason to remember 1946 "joyfully." Under the threat of that Red explosion the U.S. now stands. How best to meet that threat was Dulles' concern...
Last March, France recognized the Indo-Chinese "free state" of Viet Nam (the provinces of Tonkin and Annam) within the French Union. But this was not enough. The Vietnamese wanted to incorporate the southern province of Cochin China, because, they said, its people were mainly Annamese. The French agreed to hold an election to ascertain the wishes of the Cochin Chinese. Meanwhile, separatist agitation in Cochin China must stop. The Vietnamese tartly replied that if the separatist case was not properly presented, the election would be unfair. Ho & Vo. Viet Nam is headed by Ho Chih-minh (He Who Enlightens...
France's grey, portly Minister of Colonies Marius Moutet (close friend of Ho's when they were fellow socialists) left for Indo-China by air. So did hard-bitten General Jacques Leclerc, France's foremost armored forces expert, whom the Vietnamese bitterly hate. The cruiser Duquesne left Algiers with a division of paratroopers on board. At week's end there was talk of weakening rebel resistance and furtive peace feelers...
...Brazil, China, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Poland, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. France also asked delay for French Indo-China, and The Netherlands for the Netherlands Indies...