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...high-priced haberdashery and notions, offered some helpful shopping hints for "other gift suggestions" not available there. "For Dad: a Wheeler Sun Lounge, 65-footer [yacht], $165.000. For Mom: a sable-lined reversible polo coat from Maximilian, $45,000. For mother-in-law: an Air France ticket to Viet Nam (French Indo-China...
...great Communist offensive in Indo-China, which had been expected since the monsoons ended in October, has not materialized, probably because General Henri Navarre's aggressive spoiling operations have kept the Viet Minh off balance. Last week Navarre launched the biggest airborne attack since the Langson border raid in July, this time against the Communist base at Dienbienphu. Between the Black River and Laos. This time it was not a hit-and-run raid; the French meant to seize Dienbienphu and hold...
...French had Dienbienphu. Next day they flew in reinforcements, fanned out as far as ten miles from the base, began reconditioning the airstrip. The Viet Minh were reported to be moving up their 316th Division, and it seemed possible that the Communists might break their own tactical rules by fighting a pitched battle for Dienbienphu, rather than let Navarre's men stay in possession...
Although last July France promised that some day it would grant Indo-China "independence," it apparently spoke with tongue-in-cheek. For the recent Viet-Namese resolution which declared that Indo-China wanted complete freedom at the end of the war aroused quick opposition in Paris. The same French government which had just accepted $385,000,000 in U.S. aid to "break up and destroy the regular enemy forces in Indo-China" immediately sought, in indignation, a quick exit from the fight by threatening to withdraw if the Viet-Namese continued to seek independence instead of throwing their entire strength...
...listless fighting of the Bao Dai forces has demonstrated that a guarantee of complete independence within a few years is the prerequisite to raising more troops. By undermining the appeal of the Communist anti-imperialist slogans, this promise would also weaken the Red clutch on crucial Northern Viet-Nam. Not only pride out conscience should compel the French to set up the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can the goal of independence so the Indo-Chinese natives can be taught to do for themselves what Europeans have been unable to do for them...