Word: indo-china
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...President expressed optimism about the chances of avoiding a general war. Among his reasons: fighting has stopped in Korea and Indo-China; explosive disputes have been settled in Suez, Iran and Guatemala. He said that the settlements give the free world a better chance to "build a structure that will really be impervious to Communist assault." Said he: "I believe if we do this intelligently, work effectively toward the end, there will...
...Chiang Kai-shek or Syngman Rhee, and the feeling is mutual. Rhee is not keen to sup with the Japanese; neither are the Australians. The U.S. is not anxious to bind itself to defend precarious and far-off regimes on Asia's southern shores. France wants to include Indo-China in the area protected by the alliance; Britain says it is already too late. Out of such a conglomeration is apt to come a maximum of rhetoric and a mini mum of commitment...
Some kind of French retreat seems inevitable in North Africa, as it was in Indo-China. The question is whether it will be made in good order. "We must leave," said one French settler. "It could still be done today, gradually and without catastrophe. True, some French colonists may lose their estates. But if things go on as they are, they may lose their heads as well." Probably not many colons in Tunisia would agree with him; they hope to stay. Whether they will be able to depends on French wisdom and skill-on the wisdom to recognize a changing...
...result of the Geneva settlement, the Communist frontier "might soon be on the southern shores of Indo-China," said Menzies. His answer: Australia will back a Southeast Asian treaty (SEATO) "with arms, with men, with ships and instruments of war, with supplies." And he would be willing to send Aussie troops up closer to the frontier, probably to Malaya. "With all the good will in the world," he said, "and with the most heartfelt desire to make an end of war, we must be ready to meet it if it comes...
Pierre Mendès-France, son of a clothing manufacturer, is economist first, politician and statesman second. The argument which did most to convince him that the Indo-China war must be stopped was that France could not afford it. His chief ambition in North Africa is to stabilize the area, so that France can concentrate on what he calls the "real battlefront": eco nomic reform...