Word: indo-china
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...think, Mr. Secretary, that the Southeast Asia area can be held without Indo-China...
...words were hardly out of his mouth, when the French reporters scurried out and began filing urgent cables to their papers. The essence of what they said: the U.S. is writing off Indo-China. Flashing around the world, the news bulletins struck French officials with the weight of verbal atomic bombs. The French government asked the U.S. a plain and troublesome question: Just what will the U.S. do about the war in Indo-China if no agreement is reached at the Geneva Conference...
Dulles could point out that at his press conference he had gone on to explain that he was neither resigned to the fall of Indo-China nor ready to give up its defense, but was merely pointing out that its loss would not make the Asian situation "hopeless." By the time these qualifications were uttered, however, some reporters already were running for the telephones. Later statements by Dulles, and even by President Eisenhower (see below), could not repair all the damage...
When a reporter mentioned Indo-China, the President seized the opportunity to clear up something that had been bothering him: the Washington rumor that he and John Foster Dulles differed on U.S. policy in that unhappy country. Said the President: That was not so. If there was any detectable difference in their recent utterances, it must be because of language, not intent. Naturally, Ike continued, all of us want to save Indo-China, but no nation can be saved for the free world unless it wants to be saved. He did not think the free world ought to write...
Wrapping the. tattered cloak of experience about them, the British stepped forward in the role of the honest broker and wise counselor. Question was: Can a man be an honest broker to a bad bargain? The broker's solution for the rot infecting Indo-China was partition of the country. That solution the British hoped to get at Geneva. Until they got it, or it proved impossible to get, they refused to discuss the future. "Our immediate task is to do everything we can to reach an agreed settlement at Geneva for the restoration of peace in Indo-China...