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...traffic waiting for a train to pass, long lines of cars stretched from points about two miles apart where they had been stopped by troops." Shortly thereafter Mecklin was to report at firsthand just such a highway battle, typical of IndoChina's hit-and-run war. Accompanying General Rene Cogny, he took part in an inspection tour of Namdinh and Binh-luc. The following day, Mecklin risked mortars and snipers to cover an armored operation which leapfrogged out to rescue two besieged Vietnamese outposts. That day his friend, Photographer Robert Capa, who had gone 75 yards ahead...
French: General Rene Cogny has a smaller force-27% French Union (mostly North Africans and Foreign Legionnaires), the rest Vietnamese-but he still possesses superiority in heavy weapons, plus an unopposed air force operating almost on top of its bases. Cogny has regrouped one-third of his army into nine mobile groups, three smaller armored task forces, and a paratroop reserve; but most of his Vietnamese are tied down behind fixed defenses...
...Assembly decisively rejected Laniel's attempt as too easy an out. The burly Premier, a dead cigar jutting from his impassive face, strode off the Assembly floor, took his Cabinet with him for a meeting with President Reneè Coty...
...Hanoi for two days, Ely inspected the wary defenses and conferred with IndoChina's Commanding General Henri Navarre and the northern-front commander, General Rene Cogny. During these days the generals outlined a new command strategy: 1) Concentrate! Cogny must pull back from isolated forts, must rally for modern battle at selected centers in the plains; 2) Reinforce! Cogny must have at least two fresh divisions, about 30,000 men, to prop up the delta's teetering 70,000-man garrison. Ely was also reportedly ready to recommend Navarre's recall. Said one French officer when...
...good; a powdered extract of bacilli to make a vaccine which compares with BCG; better understanding of the need for vitamins A and C in treating patients. But the dominant tone of the meetings was a harshly realistic note sounded by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos...