Even though the French were lacking full military strength, they were hellbent upon re-occupying Vietnam. While addressing the diplomatic naysayers, French officials remarked:
“We have the forces necessary to occupy and administer Indo-China any time the Allied shipping pool will give us our own ships to transport them out of here.”
In 1954 the French gave up on Vietnam and the U.S. accepted the challenge – click here to read about it…
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