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...wrangles over U.S. foreign policy that have recently obsessed Washington. The tall, solemn G.O.P. expert on foreign affairs took, a long step toward restoring the nation's bipartisan spirit in foreign policy by accepting an $11,000 job as a top consultant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Like the recent hiring of former Republican Senator John Cooper of Kentucky as a State Department advisor, Dulles' appointment was designed to quiet ruffled Republican tempers on Capitol Hill and restore some of the harmony which led to such bold undertakings as the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic Treaty...
Dulles saw the problem in another way. "The United States is engaged in a cold war," he said. "Secretary Acheson, in his recent California speeches, discussed the nature of Soviet-American tensions in terms that were profound and enlightening and with which I am in full accord." Dulles thought that the times urgently called for unity against "the despotic danger...
...London meeting of Foreign Ministers this May, Secretary of State Dean Acheson will stop in Paris to discuss dollar aid for Viet Nam with French ministers Bidault and Schuman. In his diplomatic portfolio Acheson will carry the unpleasant facts of French colonialism and of the civil war it has sired in Viet...
...economic assistance, on which the Acheson-Bidault-Schuman talks will focus, can combat Viet Namese Communism only if dollars will follow new freedoms granted the Bao-Dai regime by the French government. Though French troops are needed to hold off the immediate threat of Communist rule, and end of French curbs on the Bao-Dai regime can win nationalist support from Viet Minh to the present government...
...Paris, Acheson should set new freedoms--in foreign policy, native economy, and government appointments--as conditions for U. S. aid to Viet Nam. Though a more independent Bao-Dai is no guarantee of a Viet Nam safe from Communist conquest, such independence is the best chance that France and the U. S. have to promote democracy in Indo-China. Without this autonomy, Viet Nam, Even with U. S. assistance, will remain easy prey for Indo-China's Communists...