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...rasp slipped into Georges Bidault's calm voice. "Indo-China is not one of the preconditions [to EDC approval]. If you want to construe it to be one, then you must replace me as a Foreign Minister...
...astute and unflagging practice of immobilisme, plus luck, Laniel passed the second-best (290-day) mark, set by Antoine Pinay, his arch rival in the Independent Party. If Laniel can last another 100 days, he will beat Queuille's record; but with so much going on in Indo-China, Geneva and France, the last 100 days may be the hardest...
...joined the shadow cabinet after his 1951 resignation from the Labor Cabinet. Nye Bevan has been biding his time and waiting his chance to seize leadership from Atlee and the Labor moderates. But some of his closest friends admitted last week that Nye had let his emotions on the Indo-China issue and the importuning of some of his hotheaded followers get the better of his judgment. Attlee's prestige was higher than it had been in months from his responsible handling of the recent H-bomb debate, in which Churchill's attempt to score partisan points against...
...reporters crowded around, asked Nixon if they could pin his words on a "high Government official." Nixon agreed, and newspapers all over the U.S. played up two Page One news stories, both from a "high Administration official." One story reported that he said the U.S. may throw troops into Indo-China if the French pull out, while the other quoted the anonymous official's opinion that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer "is a loyal American" and should not be barred from Government work if he is not a security risk (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Some newsmen viewed Nixon's statement on Indo-China as a "trial balloon," but others persuasively pointed out that he made the statements in reply to a question put to him by one of the editors, rather than in his prepared speech. They also argued that if it actually was a "trial balloon," it was floated in such a clumsy fashion that Nixon's cautious statement was confused in the uproar over who made it. Whatever Nixon's reasons, he successfully proved that it is impossible to speak before an audience of 600 and keep the speech...