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...argument that followed, said a Frenchman, was "Homeric." After two hours Mendès got Chou to abandon his grab for Laotian territory, and to withdraw most of his support for the Pathet Laos claims. In exchange, Mendès accepted Communist Poland as a member of the three-nation supervisory commission agreed that major decisions should be by unanimous vote, thus yielding the Communists a veto...
From right to left, the editorials praised the stocky little Frenchman. "Tireless energy . . . firm determination," cheered the Socialist Midi Libre. "Authority and dignity . . . honor . . . loyalty," said the right-wing L'Aurore of Paris. "What Frenchmen, apart from sectarians blinded by hatred." asked the left-wing Combat, "could today refuse him their gratitude?" But Pierre Mendès-France was insistent: there must be no show of triumph upon his return from Geneva. He did not conceal from himself the fact that Geneva was a defeat for his country, a victory for Communism; he wanted only to be greeted...
...paratrooper, "but every 500 meters someone fell to the ground." Said a German legionnaire: "Of 400 men in my squad when we left Dienbienphu . . . (twelve words deleted by French HQ censor)." Said a Spanish legionnaire: "There were . . . (three words censored) among 390 men in my squad." And a second Frenchman added: ". . . (two words censored) of 290 in my squad died...
...prisoners who were well enough tore almost ravenously into a good French meal. When they had finished, some heroes of the great battle came back to the galleys with hands outstretched, pleading for more. One legionnaire carefully stored his bread crumbs in a cellophane bag, and a Frenchman held up a loaf and cried: "Bread! To me, messieurs, this is cake...
...Foreign Ministry, which had been for so long their province under Bidault and Robert Schuman, the M.R.P. was increasingly hostile, increasingly apprehensive of Mendèes' course. MRPers repeated their charge that Mendes planned a complete capitulation to the Communists. Snapped Bidault: "Never before has one Frenchman done as much to cut off the arms France extends to her allies." In the press, Maurice Schumann, longtime Quai d'Orsay lieutenant of Robert Schuman, launched a series of articles accusing Mendèes of "isolating" France and thus paving the way toward a disastrous slide into the Communist orbit...