Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once the confusion is resolved, Dulles' bold gamble could have great rewards, for at Geneva he could conceivably carry his European success across the globe to Asia, and there nail down the Asian threat so that the British and French see its full relevance to Europe. From Geneva, all three powers and their friends might achieve the resolve to block-by "massive retaliation"-the continuing forward sweep of Communism in Asia...
...many, Austria, Europe-division still stayed when they parted. The conference broke up cleanly, and exactly on schedule. No unhappy cleanup party of subcommittee specialists was left behind to carry on. The hard fact was that in Europe at least, nothing was left to discuss. On Asia, the Big Four agreed to meet again, this time with Red China and the other nations who fought in the Korean war, on April 26 in Geneva...
France, and so long as I hold that office, it is for me to interpret French opinion." Now Dulles was alarming U.S. allies in Asia (Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek), and risking the displeasure of many Americans (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in agreeing to talk about Indo-China...
Sooner or later, Dulles knew, the war-weary French public would force its Foreign Minister to seek negotiations with the Communists. In a European city, with the U.S. and Britain at his side, Bidault would be in a far stronger position than he would alone in Asia. And U.S. participation would make it difficult for the French to make the settlement too easy on the Communists...
...hours' notice, newsmen were called to Saigon's colonnaded Palais Norodom, the seat of French government in Indo-China. There one day last week, beneath whirring fans and a lacquer painting of junks, they were confronted by the two top Frenchmen in Asia: Commanding General Henri Eugene Navarre, and Maurice Dejean, the Commissioner General...