In Paris last week, cabinet ministers and generals of the Supreme War Council decided to end their bureaucratic haggling and fight Ho Chi Minh's Communists on the basis of full-scale war. France would send to Indo-China: 1) 50,000 more troops, 2) more tanks & guns, 3) warships. An appeal would be made to the U.S. to speed up military-aid airplanes. At the same time, General Marcel Alessandri, 65-year-old infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for...
War: Plenty of Bite?
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