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...that could save the West from a humiliating surrender was the Communists themselves. At every sign of Western hesitancy, at every new bulletin from Dienbienphu, their price for peace went up. They no longer talked of partition; they were talking of a coalition government for all Viet Nam. If their demands become too arrogant, even the desperate French might balk. Then the Allies would have little alternative but to pitch in and help the French fight off the Communists to the bloody...
...garrison at Dienbienphu clung at week's end to six fire-whipped strong points by the Nam Yourn River. The tricolor still flapped jauntily above the French command post. But the 12,000 worn-out Frenchmen. Vietnamese. North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires had been squeezed into one-third of their original perimeter, and they were short of ammunition, supplies and fresh reinforcements. The men were so tired that their performance was losing effect. One night last week the Communists quickly isolated and overran a Foreign Legion outpost in the airstrip sector, and the French could not get it back...
...world revolution, were two different beings . . . He was a mental robot saying only what had been written for him, as though his tongue moved only when wound by a key in the Kremlin." So, in Korea, it came as no surprise to Clark when North Korea's General Nam II sat in dead silence for 131 minutes rather than answer a direct question during the armistice talks, or that he planned the prisoner-of-war riots on the South Korean islands and used them for propaganda purposes. Says Clark: "The Communists at Panmunjom weren't really talking...
Clark found that North Korea's two best commanders, Marshal Kim II Sung and General Nam II, had been officers in the Russian army in World War II, and that Russian antiaircraft units were actively fighting in Korea. He underrates neither the Russians nor the Chinese as adversaries, believes the Chinese learned fast and wound up with a stronger army than the one they started with. Never during the time he was in Korea, says Clark, did the U.N. command have the military means in Korea to win a decision in the field. Since Clark speaks only...
Initially, such an agency would include the five nations now meeting, plus Vict-Nam if a settlement is made in Indo-China. The other Common-wealth nations in this region, Australia and New Zealand, have also expressed a strong interest in a mutual security arrangement. In addition, a place might eventually be found for Japan and the Philippines. So constituted, such an organization would be an effective third force in Asia. Much additional strength would come from treaties of aid and mutual defense with the United States. It is important, however, that neither the U.S. nor the Chinese Nationalists...