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...Much? They would get little support from the British, who made it plain they were prepared to hand over most of Viet Nam to the Communist Viet Minh. "How much of the country have they got now?" asked one British delegate, and answered his own question: "Ninety percent." The British were also unwilling to back up France's stand against Communist demands for partition of Laos. The Communists already control "most" of it, the British said...
Regroupment in Viet Nam itself would mean nothing unless supervised by an effective control commission. Bidault rejected the Communists' plan for commissions made up of the two sides. "In case of violations, it would be impossible to control the situation," he said. "There would be interminable quarrels without arbiter, without control, and without end." Russia's Gromyko suggested supervision by a "neutral" control commission comprised of Poland, Czechoslovakia, India and Pakistan. Bidault retorted that a commission which merely balanced countries of opposite tendencies would be impotent, as the Korean commission had shown, and "being impotent...
...Dienbienphu, Seno), but they were clearly no match for the regulars of the Red Viet Minh. Disillusioned by Dienbienphu and fearful that they would be sold out at Geneva, the Vietnamese were now losing outposts at the rate of three or four a day, especially in "quiet" South Viet Nam; they were losing 200 rifles a month in one province without a single engagement; their public support had so dwindled that only 10,000 responded to last month's "emergency" 100,000-man draft...
...cloudless day last week, General René Cogny, commander of North Viet Nam, flew to the troubled southern zone of the Red River Delta. At Namdinh, 45 miles southeast of Hanoi, with evident pleasure, he presented a unit citation to the elite 2nd Amphibious Group, 1st Foreign Legion Cavalry Regiment; he tied the traditional fanon, an Arabian horse's tail, to the regimental colors. Then the strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) three-star general called the legion officers around him. "Dienbienphu was a blow," he said, "but that's all over now. We must turn the page...
...Whose debates with Viet Nam Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dinh are known to Western newsmen as Dinh-Dong battles...