DANGER ZONES Tantrum at Singapore U.S., British and French military men met last week for the first time to discuss a common strategy for defending Southeast Asia against the Red guerrillas in Indo-China and Malaya. The doings of the four-day session in Singapore were top secret; a communiqué said only that the talks "promise well for the future." Actually, the conference turned into a covert struggle between the French and British for U.S. support and supplies.
France's fighting General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny insisted that the major concentration of Western strength should be made in Indo-China; the British argued that...
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