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Thorn In The Heart

Great Britain opposed strongly with Minister Winston
Churchill and Foreign Minister Anthony Eden in the meeting.
They believed on the Geneva Peace Conference between the
allies and feared for China and Russia troops, who will jump to
the Vietnam war on Vietminh side if the allies enter Vietnam.

After the Korean war was the end with over twenty
American soldier casualties, President Eisenhower does not
want to be involved to Vietnam war by the arms force. He stays
out of this matter as he was on the line between the supporters
and opposes for easy leaning to either side while the British
Government took a stronger against Admiral Radford’s idea.

Three days late Vice-president Richard Nixon, Dulles, and
Radford had dropped their plan to save Dien-Bien-Phu. They
emphasized that President Eisenhower and American Congress
do not consider to help French in Vietnam war while Dien-Bien-
Phu had been continuing heavy fire with the thousand casualties
each day.

At May 7, 1954, General Navarre ordered General De
Castries for a cease-fire to save few dozens French soldier lives,
while he lost over a few thousand soldiers in the battle.

General Giap was final attack Dien-Bien-Phu on May 8,
1954, and French troops were unable to fight or resist their
enemy by hungry and lack ammunition under the bad climate.

Vietminh troops cut French units down from side to side
until they overran the French camps, but their conditions of
battle were the same as French troops. Giap won the battle, but
he lost over few infancies that carried the soldiers, who always
know the battle forward, and charged themselves toward the
French machine gun positions at any time for their independent
dream. Also, he does not count a few thousand civilians who
help him to transport the supplies from Lao-Cai through Tuan-

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