FOREIGN RADIO REACTION TO THE FALL OF DIEN BIEN PHU

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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 7, 1998
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REPORT

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Outright censure Gt French policy comesfrcm sdid, wbich c3.1s the
auxrsdsr of the fortreas a consequence of
the only realistic Wotan course return to
ultimatum proposed by Dullesi* The broadcaet
ins of it Potsdam ter Asia* unless a harder he
Oerman broadcasters, pointing out that much German blood has been shod
in the Dien Bien Phu battle, call the outcome of the fight a *tragic mix
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calculation* on tbe part of the French, *Those who turned the jungle
outpost into aomething like a last bulwark and symbol of weetern
tanos are eolely responsible if the west enters the Indochina conference
in bed shape," the berlin TELEORAF declares, Austrian comment followe
the German line, eating the sacrifice of Germatt blood, stressing the in-
extricable link between Europe mad Asia, and criticising France for
allowing Ormans to give that' lives to France while preventing them
from contributd to European defenite
French newPaPsres Voted by the Faris radio
element of French policy, the rightsw.a4
urgent need for Weetern unity at Geneva and eftweing papera demanding
*negotiation of an honorable peaces* The coneervative *Figaro* gay,
that Dien Bien Phu tell *because we did not know how to conduct this
mer* and expresses the hope that the shock of losing the fortreea gill
lead to determined stand at Geneva. AFP report* that paellanentery
cireles believe the French Aesembly ray reopen the Indochina debate
postponed by yeaterders coati nce vote,
The Bei n radio publicises Lanier* s*erth2, tteient
der of the de:is AFP reporta tram Saigon that civilians there ear
the life of French citizens in Vietnam mow now become impossible and that
the United States nay decide to step in, with the inevitable consegnence
of Chinese Oommunist intervention. From Geneva, AFP quotes the head of
the Leotian delegation as declaring that his people are oani*iug to
halt the invasions*
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scribe the 'People's Army
tion at Geneva.
the imperialist
colonialism is gpme
geode to the effect
not save the Trench
Communist press similar
despite American aid.
taly cello en Indochina cease-fire eo RAM's Suasion Bour stresses that
SUebarest says that the French
ost and that the only way out is niegotia
at, the broadcast sem 'is a lesson to
t want to understand that the era of
broadcast echoes recent Soviet prove-
an superboebers and mar material could
sUits in their 'unjust war," and the Vienna
stresses that the French fortress was lost
Soviet press spokesman Ilyi
contention that Western dalliance
the failure to reach an agreemeot
woemded at Dien Bien Phu, with the
Ilyiehew stressed that the
by MYAGrt the
s solely responsible for
a ce fire and *vac of the
nsequen loss of thousands of French
stponement of the talks an Indochina,
at AM the evacuation of the wounded vas to have been diseased, was at
the request of the west, and that not one French delegate took any step
to save the life of even a single wounded soldier at Dien Bien Phu.
SAVAS says that the Western delegates worked to we only Laniel not the
**idlers.
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