Word: indo-china
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...Geneva the Communists got precisely what they sought: a vast slice of Indo-China, and a stance from which to take the rest, plus formal recognition of their military conquests and time to do their further will. In the closing hours at Geneva, it was apparent that the Communists wanted peace as desperately as France (see FOREIGN NEWS). Now Red China had time-time to consolidate her dominance of the Asian continent, time (as a "peace-loving nation") to press for membership in the United Nations, and, above all, time to turn to the final suppression of the Chinese people...
Obviously glum about the defeat in Indo-China, John Foster Dulles looked into the future and thought that he saw a silver lining in SEATO. Said he: "If the free nations which have a stake in this area will now work together to avail of present opportunities in the light of past experience, then the loss of the present may lead to the gain of the future...
Mendès was blunt. He told Dulles that France had lost the war in Indo-China. Since neither the U.S. nor Britain was willing to intervene with ground forces to alter that fact, he felt that his allies should support him in getting the best settlement that he could. If the U.S. stayed away, he told Dulles, the Communists would conclude that the U.S. had deserted France, and would demand stiffer terms than he could accept. If no settlement was reached, all the world would blame...
...test, said Attlee, is "the attitude towards China." Why are settlements so difficult in Korea and Indo-China? Because "at the back of their minds, the Chinese regard it as an imperialistic attack upon them." If the U.S. would recognize Red China's right to sit in the U.N., and turn over Formosa as a trusteeship, the Chinese fears would be set at rest, he implied, and settlements would come as a matter of course...
...would be forever excluded from the U.N.," he said, but it cannot be admitted just now when it is still "technically" at war with the U.N. in Korea, and "when it is at this moment going to achieve a resounding triumph by the success of the stimulated war in Indo-China." Churchill agreed, too, that he did not "see any reason why at some subsequent date Formosa should not be treated in the manner" suggested by Attlee...