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...space of a few hours, and with little more than a seductive hint, a lifted eyebrow and a meaningful change in the tone of his voice, Red China's Chou En-lai sapped Britain's new-found resolution. In the process, he all but destroyed the purpose of Churchill's trip...
...Hope Revives." British susceptibility made it seem easy. Alarmed at Eden's threat to break off the talks, and worried when Churchill announced his trip, Chou met urgently with Eden. While committing himself to nothing, Chou hinted that the Communists might be willing to consider Laos and Cambodia separately from Viet Nam, and he rephrased some of his proposals to suggest that the Communists might withdraw some Viet Minh forces from those states. Eden promptly changed his plans for breaking off the conference...
...days. Mendès-France's reported terms-abandonment of Northern Viet Nam and the Red River Delta, in return for a neutralized Laos and Cambodia-exactly accorded with the bargain Britain had long privately advocated. Eden put off his departure to confer through Saturday afternoon with Molotov, Chou and France's Jean Chauvel, hammering out an agreement that representatives of "the two sides" would meet immediately in Geneva or "on the spot" to discuss "the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces and of foreign military personnel" from both Laos and Cambodia, and report back to the conference...
...Waithaya-kon: "We believe that it is better to face the fact of our disagreement [with the Communists] than to raise false hopes and mislead the people of the world into believing that there is agreement when there is none." In the face of this united front, Molotov and Chou En-lai got their signals crossed. Chou, raging, had blamed the U.S. alone for the impending breakoff...
...bitter facts." Dead Hopes. The bitter facts were that Molotov had killed all hope that the Communists would settle for a cease-fire or a partition of Viet Nam alone. Molotov was demanding all of Indo-China-and on the Communists' own terms. Next day China's Chou En-lai echoed Molotov's every word, rejected the West's plea for an impartial commission of Southeast Asia neutrals, insisted, like Molotov, on settling political issues before a truce was signed. Bedell Smith flung in his face one of Chou's own dictums, spoken...