Word: indo-china
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...Molotov. Ever since he returned from Moscow ten days before, he had dropped his role of forbearing arbiter and become once again the familiar aggressive antagonist. Observers suspected that he had learned in Moscow the only thing he wanted to know: the U.S. was not going to intervene in Indo-China. Last week Molotov got confirmation from the highest sources. Secretary of State Dulles said that the U.S. "has no intention of dealing with the Indo-China situation unilaterally"; that it was up to the French, and that there were no plans for asking Congress to act. President Eisenhower...
...said publicly that it would not give that help. That left the conference with nothing to do but legalize the Communist conquest of Indo-China...
...only question seemed to be: Would it be better to watch a French delegate do the legalizing, or, by breaking off, pretend that no one was looking while Indo-China slowly slipped away, either in a maproom or paddy by paddy...
...Vietnamese Minister for Information, Le Thang, was helpfully trying to explain the situation in Indo-China as he saw it. "The trouble here," he said, "is that the average Vietnamese doesn't want the U.S. to come in because he's afraid of atomic bombs. He doesn't want the Communists because he's afraid of China. He doesn't want the French to stay because they're colonialists. He wants a strong Vietnamese government, but not mobilization. He doesn't want elections because the Communists might...
...increased the possibility that France would give up the fight and lay Indo-China open to Communist absorption...