 Seem about six hundred and fifty million dollars and he was informed that Ambassador informed him that we would only give about five hundred and twenty five million dollars and our ambassador also said or left a note saying That he expected or we expected France to increase its military budget And that the French Premier objected very strongly to that and said it was impossible Now I'd like to ask you whether where you think this leaves the situation Does it mean that French would present the imposition of conditions by us, or does it simply mean that they were they particular I think It's one of those Which Happened between the best friends there was a Difference of opinion and the question of the importance of the American As you rightly said and also maybe a difference of opinion about the conditions in which such Would be given but I'm confident it would be straightened out by negotiations both in Washington many difficulties of the same Kind in the past where a fairly Straightened out. We don't think that easily. This is an inherent situation that there's a real dilemma That if we don't put conditions on our aid Foreign countries then the money may be wasted from our point We put do put on conditions and the conditions are resented. That's always seemed to me a dilemma No I think there are so many ways to see that the American is well and I think you have had many testimonies in the past by American authorities that it had been There are conditions arranged in advance and I don't think that There was a very nice in France to evade those conditions Well, that's what I gave you You know Mr. Ambassador France like the United States is fighting her On two fronts, you're trying to prepare and France and Europe and you're also carrying on a war Yes, and just as we are in Korea How long has France been fighting in Indochina? Seven years now seven long years And how French engaged in the war in Indochina We in fact in fact the France has to support Indochina Armies which amount nearly four hundred a thousand men Be gone native to the Frenchman or one of the proportion There are troops from France the troops from the French Union from Africa and native troops from the from Vietnam Associated the states of Indochina There's a very expensive war to France It's a very expensive war first in a human lives. Unfortunately We have had nearly 40,000 people missing in Indochina And how is that war going now, sir? It's it will you saw in the papers yesterday that the Vietnamese the Communists have started an offensive now and they have had the first success Which I hope is not a very important one Now that that war is like our own Korean war is quite unpopular France is it is an unpopular war because it's a very heavy burden for France both in human life as I said and In money But it is realized that it's the way to stop communism in the far east here in our own country We are trying to find ways to end the war in Korea Does France have any any hope of ending the war soon in Indochina? We are doing our best We are we are hoping that the nationalist the sincere nationalist in Vietnam in Indochina Will desert the camp of Ho Chi Minh of the communists and come to the camp of Baodai and we are organizing a Vietnamese army one way any evidence mr. Ambassador that the Russians are supplying them with equipment or that the Chinese communists are supplying them with equipment No doubt about it the heavy equipment that they have the recoilless guns and mortars and Guns and shells all that comes from other lands They are unable to manufacture anything but the very light of weapons or ammunitions Well, it comes from China here in our own country We are talking a great deal about the possibilities of being able to train The South Koreans just so that asiatics can oppose Asia asiatics What success is France had in training the native troops in Indochina the real success? We have now six divisions of the Vietnamese army plus smaller Cambodian and Laotian armies fully trained the good soldiers a good young officers But it takes time it takes time of course well one other thing I'm sure that some of our viewers would like you view on In America there has been some feeling that in Indochina We are being handicapped a bit by some of the hangover of French colonialism Now sir are the French in Indochina fighting for the independence of the native peoples are you fighting to hold a colony? We are fighting for the independence for preserving the independence of the native people For preventing them to fall under the Bolshevik yoke. They have received their full independence They are independent now Unfortunately, they are not still able to protect themselves so that independence You contend then that France is fighting the same sort of war in Indochina that we are in Korea They were both trying to free peoples from the communist Mr. Ambassador, I wish you could throw some light for us on this thing called neutralism in France What is neutralism? What do they feel and how many people feel it? I'll answer first about how many people very few people very few people is the fact of Very limited circles in Paris. There is no party in the French parliament. No group And you know we have various groups and several groups. There is no groups, which is a cold neutralist No group which pretends to be neutralist. In fact, I don't think there are any members of the French parliament Well, there's a good deal of neutralist sentiment in the French press isn't there that finds expression in the French press Not much not well now the neutralist feel more or less that here are two giant imperialism against each other the Russians on the one side and the Americans on the other and that It would be better for France to let these two imperialism fight each other and to sit it out While this fight goes on isn't that more or less the neutralist position? I don't know I'm not very competent for defining the neutralist position, you know And I think it's it varies with individuals and it's a more vague And then you said some of them probably would like to see France Using her influence for preventing a clash or diplomatic difficulties between the two camps Including including including even France fortunately in the in the camp of the free people It's something which is not very well defined Mr. Ambassador of course France is a traditional great friend of America it goes back to your helping us in our revolution Thank you, and of course great many Americans have fought on French soil in the last two world wars Now sir, what about Anti-Americanism Do we are there any Frenchman today who are hating America as the Russians want them to? I think all that comes from the Bolshevik communist propaganda. There is no other source, you know Well as communism on the decline now in France in your opinion, I think so. Well, what evidence is there in your opinion? well in evidence for instance in the fact that the big communist newspaper the humanity, you know, had two or three years ago 600,000 Circulation and now less than 200,000 the fact that during the last elections They lost They lost half a million votes and it was at a time when the prices were very high the wages were low It was really a favorable period for them nevertheless. They lost so and they and since then we are convinced That they have still lost more votes and how they've been able to make any trouble on the labor front. They are unable to make a real Political and a political trouble now is a as a final question. Mr. Ambassador I'm sure that our viewers would like your opinion as to whether we can expect peace whether you believe that we will Help peace in the world during the next few years. 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