Generals' Affair
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The Generals' Affair (also known as Revers Report, Rapport Revers) was a political-military scandal that happened under the French Fourth Republic during the First Indochina War. It lasted from September 1949 to November 1950.
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[edit] Revers Mission (May-June 1949)
From May to June 1949, French General Revers commanding the Ground Forces of the French Union in French Indochina was in charge of a report about local Generals opinion about the situation in Indochina. It was named the Revers Report (Rapport Revers).
[edit] Generals' Affair (September 1949)
The scandal burst in September 1949, by December General Revers was dismissed.
The General report drew a very pessimistic opinion about the French sitution in Indochina. For some reasons the secret report fallen in Viet Minh hands who made it public, broadcasting it on the radio humiliating the French.
In France the newly created news magazine L'Express, which was the first one in France, published a part of the confidential report too.
[edit] Generals' Affair Commission of Inquiry (January 1950)
On January 1950 the National Assembly of France created a Commission of Inquiry about the Generals' Affair.
[edit] Jules Moch's trial (November 1950)
On November 28, 1950 the National Assembly of France brought socialist Defense Ministry Jules Moch (SFIO) on court about the Generals' Affair.
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