Abstract

Behind the Viet-Nam Revolt

"Notre politique a cessé d'être claire," and politician Daniel Halévy in the days of the Third Republic. The "Journal de Genève," commenting on Holland's difficulties in Indonesia, recalls this remark and adds, "A slackening is taking place in public opinion which signifies indifference, laissez aller, lassitude; the controversy yields to enigma and imbroglio." If this is true at The Hague, the Netherlands, how much more is it true in Paris, France, with regard to the fighting in Indo-China. It is symptomatic of the present ideological disarray of the French that the problem of Indo-China has become confused beyond words, an issue so controversial that it has rocked the government, while in the country at large one finds only apathy and doubt.