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Unsanctified Facts. The next day the discussions focused on Indo-China and the defense of Southeast Asia. Anthony Eden did not apologize for the backhanded insults he dealt Foster Dulles in his House of Commons speech, but he did say he regretted having raised a storm of dissent in the U.S. by proposing a Far Eastern Locarno. Eden said that he had no idea the proposals would evoke such sharp dissent in the U.S.-a statement that was hard to take at face value...
...divided between West and East. Said he: "We don't encourage West Germany to go to war to change that fact, but we don't feel we should sanctify it." Eden's Locarno proposal would mean sanctifying whatever peace terms the collapsed French may concede in Indo-China, Dulles said. He explained: "If we entered into a Locarno-type pact in Asia, we would be pledged to maintain this Communist system." The meeting concluded with "generalized" agreement that a defense network for Southeast Asia ought...
...send troops to Indo-China...
...record remark that if there were no other recourse the U.S. would have to send troops to Indo-China made world headlines...
...government or swung over to the anti-Communist cause. But whether the Guatemalan clash swelled into bitter and prolonged civil bloodshed or petered out in anticlimax and frustration, the issue was nonetheless clearly drawn. Guatemala, in its special way, was a small-scale sequel to Korea and Indo-China. and the world knew it. Even the United Nations Security Council stirred into action; it held its first Sunday emergency meeting since the June 1950 session on Korea...