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...fear a rearmed West Germany. So argues an increasing number of politicians, whose spokesman, Pierre Mendés-France, came close to being Premier five weeks ago. Watching the U.N. negotiating with the Communists in Korea, they feel that there can be no dishonor in opening negotiations with the Viet Minh Communists...
...France's solutions. The expendable stand-in government of Premier Joseph Laniel was not talking truce last week, but it took the first move in setting up a situation from which advances might be made. It offered a larger measure of independence to Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, the states of Indo-China, to encourage them to take a larger share in their own defense...
...provisions, after the style of the British Commonwealth, one which offers the small, weak states many advantages, but from which they may secede at will. "I don't see how that could happen," he adds, "because they wouldn't last 24 hours." At week's end, Viet Nam had accepted the French proposals, Laos was undecided, but Cambodia's King Norodom was acting as cagily as Syngman Rhee...
...Paris, the French Cabinet studied the plans of General Henri Navarre for a fall offensive against the Viet Minh, and moved sharp-eyed Ambassador Maurice Dejean from Tokyo to be Commissioner General in Saigon. Said Dejean: "They [the Associated States] will get all the freedom they want, limited only by the amount they will accept...
...announcement personally, but had a spokesman read it to newsmen: "We shall give back to our troops the mobility and aggressiveness they have sometimes lacked. Our units have become too heavy. Certainly our troops have preserved their supremacy in pitched battle-when they are offered it by the Viet Minh. But this is not enough. Henceforth our troops will seek the enemy in the very heart of their jungle and paddies. They will impose battle on the enemy . . . Our infantry must have confidence in itself, in its weapons and its officers. There may be a real problem of confidence among...