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Speaking on the eve of the Indo-China truce, Meany said: "The policy of massive retaliation, which was put forward in the early spring as the policy of the Eisenhower Administration, has vanished into thin air. Let us hope that it will not be replaced by a policy of massive appeasement on a world scale that would make Munich of 16 years ago pale into insignificance...
...Closing Hours. Amidst all the relief felt for the ending of the Indo-China war and the acclaim for his dazzling display of diplomatic virtuosity, Pierre Mendès-France, the realist, had no illusions and said so. Geneva had been a disaster for France, forced on him by past mistakes. On paper, Mendès-France had got more last-minute concessions than any one had expected, but the agreements were full of potential booby traps. Biggest one of all: the agreements depended on Communist promises...
Ironically, the closing hours of Geneva had proved that the Communists were in reality desperately anxious for a ceasefire, though they played their hand without revealing the fact. The Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China were tired of living in mountain hideouts. The Red Chinese wanted a period of peace to consolidate their restive home front, and they were deeply apprehensive that the U.S. might intervene. The existence of these fears, even after the U.S. had plainly shown no enthusiasm to get involved in Indo-China, was a sad reminder that the whole of Indo-China might have been saved...
...formally suggesting a new four-power conference on "European security." As Molotov calculated, the timid and the neutralists set up an immediate cry against precipitate action on EDC or West German sovereignty, before "one more try" at agreement on Germany, Nobody explained why the Communists, having just divided Indo-China, should now be willing to unite Germany...
...villa by Lac Leman, three men hunched over a great man of Indo-China late one night last week. One was the Communist Viet Minh's Pham Van Dong; another was France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France; the third was Albert Sarraut, an oldtime French empire builder who had been governor of Indo-China in lordlier days when there were no such irritants as the Viet Minh. Each had a red pencil in his hand. Beneath their hands the map was slashed with red lines, until Viet Nam began to look like a body crisscrossed with...