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Meeting in the same buildings that once housed a crumbling League of Nations, representatives of the five major powers are this week trying to find a practical way to end another war, the struggle for Indo-China. And the Geneva conference, already deadlocked, may fail for the same reason the League failed: not all its participants want peace...
...negotiated settlement in Indo-China is not impossible. The French announcement that they will give Viet-Nam complete independence greatly weakens the Communist argument that the West if following a policy of imperialism. Also, the knowledge that this country will probably enter the war if peaceful settlement fails, and Secretary Dulles' policy of massive retaliation, may force the Communists to agree to a cease-fire. In that case, the next question would be what kind of settlement is possible...
...intervention should come only after France has guaranteed Viet-Nam complete independence. Without such a guarantee, this country would find itself linked with imperialism and colonialism, if not in practice, at least in the eyes of other Asian states such as India and Burma. A Western victory in Indo-China that is won at the expense of Asian support would be more like a defeat...
Isolationists argue that U.S. entry into the Indo-China war will lead to full-scale war with Communist China. But Chinese fear of our massive retaliation would make such a war unlikely. War is, however, a risk the United States must take. The only alternative to this risk is Communist control of Southeast Asia...
...Tomorrow's editorial will discuss a negotiated peace in Indo-China...