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...Minister Georges Bidault is able to operate at Geneva because his Cabinet is too divided to give him instructions, and the Cabinet survives because the French Assembly is too fragmented to throw it out. In the magnificent heritage of France, the U.S. again and again found hope for improvement. Indo-China was the last hope. Under General de Lattre de Tassigny, who recalled a different France, the hope seemed brilliantly justified. But it is now clear that when De Lattre died, the hope for an strong French stand in Indo-China died...
Advice? No. What the U.S. expected of France would have taxed a far stronger and more politically wholesome nation. The U.S. insisted-quite rightly-that France make an firm promise of independence to the Indo-Chinese states. This enraged some influential French figures. At the same time, the U.S. was encouraging the French to resist Red aggression to the utmost. The two U.S. pressures on a weakened France had the effect of asking it for sacrifices in an area where, the U.S. insisted, France's responsibilities must soon...
While they failed to run the war themselves, the pride of the French would not let the U.S. run it. Military supplies for Indo-China were welcome; they helped to ease the French dollar-gap problem. But advice...
Fleet, who had trained Greek and Korean troops, to come to Indo-China. Last winter, before the U.S. could dispatch Lieut. General John W. ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel to Indo-China as military adviser, the French broadly hinted that he be reduced to major general so that he would not outrank the French principals...
Before the abrupt end of the conference, President Eisenhower made an important statement about Indo-China (see above). Other topics: ¶¶On the progress of his legislative program: he tried to cultivate patience, said the President, but. he doesn't believe that he is primarily a very patient man, so when he thinks there is a course of action that looks as if it were for the good of the U.S., he is never satisfied until it is done. Though congressional leaders had assured him that the program would be enacted, he could not exaggerate the importance...