The onetime playwright had shown again that he was a pretty fair actor—but his steely determination in the Frenchman’s presence that night masked deep trepidations about the road ahead. No doubt Mus was right that politics would win out, that people mattered more than territory, and that the revolutionary forces had inherent advantages at the local level, where the mass of Vietnamese lived, that the colonials could never hope to match. But would it be enough? What about the colossal French superiority in military firepower, so transparent in the fighting to this point? To overcome this
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