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...Mendès is honest. He commands respect and admiration, and no objective review of his performance can avoid that conclusion. He inherited a situation which had already been rendered disastrous by the inability of France to defend Indo-China, and in that desperate situation, the Geneva agreement is not entirely...
...Peking time, Wednesday July 21, 1954, the Indo-China war came to its end. Geneva's decision reached out across the sharp-cut hills and jungles, across the paddies swollen in the rain. It settled densely, inevitable and expected, upon the shifting battle lines, upon the doubts of Saigon and Hanoi...
...Battleground: Geneva's decision reached out to Vinhyen, 25 miles northwest of Hanoi, where the late Marshal de Lattre de Tassigny had won France's most notable Indo-China victory 3½ years before. At Vinhyen the French were deploying 5,000 men against four Viet Minh battalions, in the last big fight of the war. "The battle for the delta is a good battle," insisted General René Cogny, but his soldiers now knew that their purpose was useless. "All we're doing is wasting ammunition," grumbled a Parisian sergeant, "and maybe...
...greatest of Diem's immeasurable problems lay in the Asian truth that had already brought one-half of Indo-China crashing down into Communism: the Vietnamese who cared were less impressed by the brave intentions of powerless men, than by the ruthless success of the Communists in a faraway place called Geneva...
Favorable Influence. "The armistice in Indo-China testifies," Chou went on suavely, "that the forces for peace are irresistible. No policy aimed at creating splits and forming opposing military groups can have the support of the people ... It is our opinion that the nations of Asia should consult among themselves and cooperate ... in the interests of safeguarding peace." It was an astute, well-timed bid for the leadership of Asia...