Word: indo-china
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...Berlin Conference adjourned, Britain wanted a three-power conference forthwith, on what the West's Indo-China policy should be at Geneva. But Dulles could not stay to confer; he had to hurry back to the U.S. to explain the plans for Geneva to Congress. In any event, as the British soon found out, a conference at that point would have accomplished exactly nothing. Reason: the French had no idea what they wanted with regard to Indo-China, except peace at almost any price...
...their assault on Dienbienphu. It was quickly apparent that, in spite of high words from the French, Dienbienphu was going to fall. Dulles began to search for a countermove that would shore up the West's bargaining power. He decided to propose a conference on "united action" in Indo-China by ten powers-the U.S., Britain, France, the Associated Indo-Chinese states, Thailand, the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia...
...kins called on Dulles with bad news: he had been instructed by London not to attend. Later, Sir Roger explained that the British Foreign Office, in agreeing to the conference, had overlooked the forthcoming Colombo, Ceylon conference of Asian Premiers. A precipitate British move to promote united action in Indo-China, he said, might be disastrously interpreted at Colombo as retrograde colonialism...
...four days they faced the delegates of the Free Nations in secret sessions on Indo-China. The Communists' principal line repeated daily was that any settlement must be applied to all three Indo-Chinese states. The West retorted that Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia must be discussed separately...
...might be provoked to immediate action. Chou, thinking he saw an opportunity to exploit allied differences, replied slyly that he counted on the British to restrain the U.S. Eden was shocked into firmness. There should be no mistake, he said. If a showdown came in Indo-China, Britain would fight at the U.S.'s side...