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...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...
...Viet Nam, the only one of the three associated states of Indo-China that had already lost much of its territory to the Communists, these further terms...
...guard of honor, because: "It's hardly the occasion for that sort of thing." He ordered his car along side streets into Paris, in case the people were lining the main roads. But Mendès need not have bothered. There was relief that the war in Indo-China was ended-nothing more. Fewer than 250 Parisians waited outside Mendès' Quai d'Orsay office, and these were mostly Communists who called out. "Long live peace!" as the Premier strode in to work...
...Munich; he drew only skimpy applause from his own Roman Catholic M.R.P. Party, and short shrift from Mendès. By a thundering vote, of 462 to 13, with 152 absent or abstaining (the latter mostly from Bidault's M.R.P.), the Assembly hailed "the cessation of hostilities in Indo-China, due in large measure to the decisive action of the Premier...