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...squadron of our planes were attacked over the high seas, under your amendment they could not even fire back until Congress decided to do something about it." Massachusetts' Republican Congressman Richard Wigglesworth said that the amendment could be construed "as an invitation to further aggression in Indo-China." Said Ohio's John Vorys, the House's Republican foreign-policy leader: "Telegraphing your punch is bad, but telegraphing your enemy that you are not going to punch is worse ... I suggest that in this matter, instead of relying upon 'General' Coudert . . . this would be the time...
...Russians and Chinese want to settle at Geneva for half of Indo-China, there is a good chance that they can have...
...first week of the conference had begun in confusion and concern, with the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles striving manfully to stiffen the backbone of the divided West. He made it clear that he. like Presi dent Eisenhower, viewed Indo-China as "the cork in the bottle," to be held in place at all costs. Any such compromise settlement as partition of Indo-China, he argued, could only result in ultimate Communist capture of the whole country. Meanwhile, the Chinese Reds showed signs that the prospect of Western military action in Southeast Asia had them worried...
...Geneva had been exhausted. By a deal, the British delegation made clear, they meant partition. ¶In Washington, President Eisenhower talked of a modus vivendi, told his press conference that the West was caught between the unattainable and the unacceptable. The most the U.S. could ask for in Indo-China, he said, was a practical basis for getting along one with the other, something like the U.S. has been doing with the Communists in Berlin and Germany. Whatever the President meant, Geneva read it only one way: Eisenhower was now willing to accept a deal in Indo-China...
...flank from the U.S. and Britain to help bolster his shaky position at home. Last week he brooded about reports that his government would be replaced by a "surrender" Cabinet eager for a settlement from which the French would ask and get nothing but a safe-conduct out of Indo-China. "A Kerensky government is being plotted behind my back," he told an intimate darkly, "which is prepared to reverse France's alliances." He meant the alliance with the U.S., which he considers France's most valuable asset...