Word: indo-china
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...disunity and indecision of the free world have become increasingly apparent in recent months. Items: ¶ There is no agreed approach to the Far East. The lack of policy, so obvious in the anti-Communist position in the Geneva talks on Indo-China, extends over the whole area. It includes British recognition of Red China, divergences over Japan's future and the shameful aftermath of the Korean truce...
...made himself France's new Premier, he breathed new life (and danger) into the expiring Geneva Conference, and he revived the prospect of a negotiated settlement in Indo-China. He brought a transfusion of young, fresh blood into the trouble-hardened arteries of French government. He ended the long postwar dominance of France by the Catholic M.R.P. party, whose two leaders, Robert Schuman and Georges Bidault. have served as Foreign Secretary through 18 different postwar Cabinets. He promised to break the deadlock over EDC that has so long undercut the strength and frayed the tempers of the Western alliance...
There was little questioning of Mendès' competence, but the pundits gave him almost no chance to get a majority. He vas ambitious and personally disliked by some. The M.R.P. feared his demands for an Indo-China peace and his unfriendliness to EDC. The proud, nationalist minded followers of Charles de Gaulle liked his reservations on EDC but suspected that he stood for ignoble surrender in Indo-China. In the press gallery, correspondents made up a pool. Only two guessed that Mendès-France would win a majority...
...blue suit, Mendès-France stepped briskly forward and nervously began to speak in curt, matter-of-fact tones. It was a daring foray, lucidly drafted and powerfully put. At the center of France's illness, said Mendès-France, is the hemorrhage of war in Indo-China. "Peace negotiated with our adversaries is required by the facts, and such a peace in turn [requires] the putting in order of our finances, revival of our economy and its expansion." But peace first...
...will vote for you," announced the Red spokesman as the Chamber reconvened, "because we wish to do everything possible for restoring peace in Indo-China." Mendes gave the Communists an icy comeuppance. "I must tender my thanks ... for the precious support ..." he said. "[But] ... I ask what would be the feelings of our soldiers in Indo-China if they learned that a government was constituted thanks to the votes of those who have sullied men who devotedly died for their country . . .?" If he did not get a clear majority without Communist votes, Mendes said, he would consider himself rejected...