From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Wed, 04 May 2005 11:42:08 -0400, Adam
 wrote:

> Course what threw them was that the French empire wasn't the British
> empire & coz it was smaller & weaker posed no threat to post war US
> power & Vietnam wasn't being given back to us but to the frogs &
> thus.....

Well, Truman had DeGaulle to contend with.  I'm too lazy to look it up, but
DeGaulle was a major PITA in the post-war tidying up.

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Steve 
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