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...Bystander. The British, who could at least claim that they had urged partition of Indo-China all along, worked at a plan of their own. Once "zonalisa-tion" (as they called it) is achieved, the new frontiers could be guaranteed by a collective-security organization like that Dulles suggested-but with one difference. All or most of the Commonwealth nations in Asia would be included, in particular India, though Nehru was unlikely to agree to any guarantee worth having...
...week's end, Dulles tried to patch together a few scraps from the debris-though the Indo-China conference had not yet even formally begun. He called a Sunday meeting with Australia and New Zealand, discussed when and if a united front in Southeast Asia could be put together. He also sounded out Thailand and the Philippines. Monday morning he boarded his plane for Milan and a brief talk with Italy's Premier Scelba before flying on homeward...
...world's greatest power on the battlefields of Korea. They had, after rushing to aggression's service in North Korea, replaced Russia as North Korea's occupier. They had been able to arm and direct, with little or no cost in Chinese blood, a war in Indo-China that might well lead to the capture of all Southeast Asia by Communism. They had cowed the once great French nation into a yearning for dishonorable surrender; they had spurned the outstretched hand of once mighty Britain; they had ordered the U.S. to get out of Asia...
...specialists estimate that a 1954 harvest 10% lower than 1953's would spread famine through most of China. New grabs of territory, e.g., the rice bowl of Indo-China, might alleviate but would not solve the problem, for it is one of distribution as well as supply...
Navarre was making no apparent effort to relieve Dienbienphu, though he had some 20 battalions elsewhere in Indo-China, including four paratroop battalions in the Red River Delta. "Navarre seems to be drawing completely into himself," said one high-placed observer. "It's almost as though he had a Gotterddmmer-tmg complex." Navarre meant somehow to cling a while to Dienbienphu in the hope that peace could be negotiated at Geneva, but there would be no new blow against the Communists-for that, as one of his aides astonishingly explained, would be "inconsistent with the government's decision...