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...Molotov: "I don't think anyone can attack facts, even though they are bitter facts." Dead Hopes. The bitter facts were that Molotov had killed all hope that the Communists would settle for a cease-fire or a partition of Viet Nam alone. Molotov was demanding all of Indo-China-and on the Communists' own terms. Next day China's Chou En-lai echoed Molotov's every word, rejected the West's plea for an impartial commission of Southeast Asia neutrals, insisted, like Molotov, on settling political issues before a truce was signed. Bedell Smith...
...said publicly that it would not give that help. That left the conference with nothing to do but legalize the Communist conquest of Indo-China...
...only question seemed to be: Would it be better to watch a French delegate do the legalizing, or, by breaking off, pretend that no one was looking while Indo-China slowly slipped away, either in a maproom or paddy by paddy...
...Vietnamese Minister for Information, Le Thang, was helpfully trying to explain the situation in Indo-China as he saw it. "The trouble here," he said, "is that the average Vietnamese doesn't want the U.S. to come in because he's afraid of atomic bombs. He doesn't want the Communists because he's afraid of China. He doesn't want the French to stay because they're colonialists. He wants a strong Vietnamese government, but not mobilization. He doesn't want elections because the Communists might...
...increased the possibility that France would give up the fight and lay Indo-China open to Communist absorption...