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...Backing Out. At the Four-Power Conference in Berlin last January, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles voiced a warning to Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault: if IndoChina were included on the agenda of the Geneva Conference, the Communists would inevitably try to improve their bargaining position by an all-out military attack. Eden and Bidault agreed that the Communists might do just that. But they argued that public opinion at home forced them to take the risk; the French thought that they could beat off the Red attack...
...Communist stalling, by its very obviousness, was beginning to defeat itself. For one thing, it allowed France's doughty Foreign Minister Georges Bidault to resist arrogant Communist demands without repudiation from Paris. Likewise, stalling-plus the military threat to the Red River Delta (see below}-gave urgency to Bidault's insistent demands for help from the U.S. Warned Roger Seydoux, France's No. 2 diplomat in the U.S.: "France will not continue to be the foot soldier of the free world In Southeast Asia. The free nations will have to join the fight, not only with...
...relishes his role in Geneva, delights in recapturing the glamour of his League-of-Nations days. His friends picture him as the only real diplomat on the Western side. Is he not the only one who can lunch with the U.S.'s Bedell Smith or France's Bidault, yet take tea with Chou En-lai and dine with Molotov? The British newspapers are running over with enthusiasm for these exploits, without stopping to consider whether anything is gained by drinking tea with the Chinese Communists...
...himself from Britain's recognition of Red China. At last summer's Washington conference, where he deputized for the ailing Eden, he was the only Western minister to declare that the Berlin conference (which led to Geneva) was a mistake. Then, he was overruled by Dulles and Bidault. Salisbury still holds two truths to be self-evident: 1) that British foreign policy should never diverge far from U.S. policy; 2) that it never pays to appease a scoundrel, whether fascist or communist...
...Bidault stood up. "When men are dying, we should not be laughing," he said. "I should like to point out that the laughter did not come from the free nations' benches." The laughter stopped abruptly. Amid dead silence, Molotov arose and admitted sheepishly: "I agree with the French Foreign Minister...