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...Communists last week added 3,000,000 Indo-Chinese to the 800 million people whose destinies they already control. It happened swiftly, and so bloodlessly that the rest of the world hardly noticed. Yet it was a bigger Communist victory than Dienbienphu...
...Events everywhere seem in conspiracy. As seen from Indo-China, Geneva is an impressive display of Communist strength and Western weakness. The humility of the French empire before Chou Enlai, the calculated susceptibility of London, the drift and confusion of Washington all contribute to the net effect of Red ascendancy, and that is in itself the decisive Red advantage in Indo-China...
...Even millions of dollars of U.S. military equipment, like U.S. policy, has little if any compensating effect. Tons of it pile up each day at the docks and airfields, giving an impression of massive power, then disappear. One of the mysteries of Indo-China is how so much U.S. equipment can be dispersed so quickly and so unnoticeably." Parley in the Village. The erosion was almost too far advanced even for Ngo Dinh Diem, the firm-minded new anti-Communist Prime Minister of Viet Nam (TIME, June 28). Diem arrived in Saigon from Paris last week promising independence, land reform...
...convinced that EDC will be ratified . . . Indo-China and Geneva have impressed the Frenchmen, showing them that general insecurity is insecurity for France also. The Geneva Conference shows how dangerous Communists are . . . Every delay in EDC ratification strengthens Communists . . . "Adenauer got a last-minute boost from Churchill and Eisenhower in Washington...
Party, to an island off the northwestern French coast and they took heart from French reverses in Indo-China and confusion in Paris...