INDO-CHINA WAR
U.S. Advice To French
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) .(Rec. 11 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 23. The United States offered France today additional assistance in the IndoChina fighting, but urged a “more aggressive” training programme for Vietnamese "forces. The United States position was stated at separate press conferences by the Secretary of State (Mr Dulles) and the Secretary of Defence (Mr Charles Wilson). Mr Dulles pledged additional equipment needed for victory over the Communist Vietminh forces. Then Mr Wilson said at his regular press conference: “Effective and aggressive training of the Indo-Chinese troops is essential if the war is to be brought to a successful conclusion.” Although Mr Wilson said nothing critical of French military training methods, he remarked that General John O’Daniel, the United States Army commander in the Pacific area, would not be going to Indo-China as leader of a new United States military advisory group “if he did not think he had a good chance” to speed up that programme. These developments came as General Paul Ely, the French Chief of Staff, conferred with high American military and diplomatic officials on the whole future course of United States-French co-operation in the Indo-Chinese fighting.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27307, 25 March 1954, Page 11
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