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...time for "agonizing reappraisal" was at hand. At the Geneva Conference, where the free nations milled in confusion before Soviet Russia and Communist China (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.S. was caught this week in an spin of defeatism over Indo-China. The immediate reason was that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had failed in his desperate attempts to form an preconference united front. But the real reason was deeper: in both its European and Asian diplomacy, the U.S. had counted postwar France as an great power, and in agonizing reappraisal, the U.S. now knew that this had been...
...build up the armies of South Korea, Indo-China and Japan; 3) build up the equivalent of NATO in the Pacific...
Arriving in Geneva, Dulles set his jaw grimly, and did his best to re-establish an air of Western determination. He dismissed talk of partitioning Indo-China, a notion to which the British have clung. "The only partition I would favor," said Dulles, "would be to set apart a place way up north, about the size of this room, and lock up all the Communists there...
...scene: India's Upper House of Parliament. The issue: U.S. airlift of French reinforcements across Asia to Indo-China. The question from the floor: Would the U.S. Globemasters "transgress" Indian territory? Prime Minister Nehru's reply: "It has been the policy of the government for the past six years not to allow foreign troops to pass through or fly over India." There was indeed such an Indian policy, but Nehru chose to restate it in a desperate hour when his remarks would give sharp offense to the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Parliament got the point; M.P.s cheered...
...days later Nehru defined the war in Indo-China to his own satisfaction: "The conflict is in its origin and essential character a movement of resistance to colonialism." Nehru rounded off his oration by saying the U.S. threatened the peace of Southeast Asia. He had nothing to say about Red China...