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When Secretary of State John Foster Dulles landed at Orly airport at midweek, he looked forward to three quiet days of conferences with France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault and Britain's Anthony Eden, to talk over tactics before Geneva. In a matter of hours, the air of leisure was abruptly shattered. While the world wondered and worried, statesmen scurried from one closed room to another, generals emerged tight-lipped from secret meetings...
French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault issued a statement as the conference opened accusing the Vietminh of "violating the rules of war" by refusing to let the French fly out their many wounded from Dienbienphu...
...Bidault added that it was inconceivable for a conference taking place in the birthplace of the Red Cross not to take some action toward a humanitarian truce...
...Partners Without Responsibilities." This sudden, uncompromising maneuver was part of little Georges Bidault's attempt to keep a promise he made to John Foster Dulles: before going off to Geneva, he would get a date set for France's too-long-postponed parliamentary decision on EDC. Three days later, Laniel announced that on May 18 he would formally ask the National Assembly's steering committee to set an "early" debate on EDC, perhaps May 25-if all three of Paris' preconditions are met by then...
...grumblings and rumblings in French political circles made plain, however, that the week's maneuverings had pushed France's day of decision closer. "It would have been impossible for me to go to Geneva . . . without at least a decision as to the date," said Bidault. "If the outcome had been different, I should have preferred to resign...