Word: indo-china
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Gone from government was Foreign Minister Bidault; Mendès kept the Foreign Ministry for himself. The new Premier-Foreign Minister said he might personally go to Geneva to learn what the price of peace in Indo-China would...
...some essentially conservative premises: hard money, balanced budgets and sound businessmen's practices. Mendès-France has built his reputation solely by the thoroughness with which he digs into problems, the clarity with which he expresses himself. Last year, urging an end to the war in Indo-China, he came within 13 votes of being chosen Premier (TIME, June 15, 1953)-"To govern is to choose," says Mendès-France. He has argued in speech after speech in the Assembly that only by abandoning some of its commitments can France overcome its immobilisme. "France must limit...
...moment last week, the long, unhappy split in the U.S.-British relations seemed about to end. At Geneva, Britain's Anthony Eden shook off the lethargy induced by Communist voices, and declared he saw no further use in continuing discussion on Indo-China. Next day Sir Winston Churchill announced that he was going to Washington to visit President Eisenhower. Churchill had told Eisenhower he would not accept his invitation so long as there was British hope of a settlement at Geneva that acceptance might "prejudice"; the meeting was intended to mark a major turning point in British policy...
Almost unnoticed under the overshadowing menace of Indo-China, the conference on Korean unification was broken off last week at Geneva. The Korean talks, from which nothing had been expected by the U.S., had been paralyzed since early May, when Molotov refused the U.N. any role in supervising Korean elections, on the ground that the U.N. was not impartial because it had participated in the Korean war. In warding off Communist proposals-all of which were aimed at preventing free Korean elections-the 16 Korean war allies showed a healthful and effective solidarity...
...military mission to Indo-China suffered its first casualties. Three Air Force and two Army technicians went swimming last week at an off-limits beach near their base at Tourane, 375 miles northeast of Saigon, and never came back. Presumably they were captured ,by the Communists. Previous U.S. casualties in Indo-China: two civilian pilots shot down over Dienbienphu (TIME...