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...foreign correspondents, recently finished another trip around the world. He had flown to England in October, hopped over to Frankfurt, then on to other European capitals before heading for New Delhi. From India he worked his way along the still free perimeter of Asia (Indonesia, Malaya, Indo-China, Siam, Hong Kong, Japan) and finally to the battlefield in Korea...
...Hanoi, Gottfried teamed up with Eric Gibbs, London Bureau chief then on temporary assignment in Indo-China, to tour the front north of Hanoi in a battered old command car. They wanted to see the thin French defenses that hold back the Reds from all of Indo-China and Siam. Every couple of miles they passed small forts which, except for being brick, looked like something out of American frontier days. Troops had made up for the shortage of barbed wire by slanting up rows of sharpened bamboo sticks-which are quite effective until someone puts a match to them...
...Siam - 1,200 men, two corvettes...
...tough, and they have to be fanatic to stick it out. The British are convinced that they get no outside help. In support of this view, the British have captured documents which indicate that the Communist high command does not consider it worthwhile to give the terrorists aid until Siam is in Communist hands. The terrorists get their guns and ammunition by shooting people who have them. A favorite trick until recently was to shoot down traffic police when their backs were turned and to seize their side arms. Now traffic police go unarmed and thus are helpless if they...
...Tibet. 4. Siam...