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Well-Chosen Words. After three meetings with Eden (and dinner with Churchill), Dulles got agreement to a statement declaring Britain's recognition that Communist aggression in Indo-China "endangers" the security of the whole Southeast Asia area, and "accordingly, we are ready to take part with other countries principally concerned in an examination of the possibility of establishing a collective defense . . ." The ten suggested countries were the U.S., France, Britain, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and the three Indo-Chinese states...
...Hurry. Next day, Dulles called at the Quai d'Orsay, spent half an hour with Bidault in his private office, prodding him to action on EDC (see below), then went upstairs to the tapestry-hung Salon de Beauvais, where the Indo-Chinese experts were waiting. Dulles went directly to the central problem: France's long-standing resistance to "internationalizing" the Indo-Chinese war. its eagerness to control all the talking at Geneva...
...present focus of the Far Eastern situation is the Geneva Conference, opening next week. Mr. Anthony Eden, who will represent Britain, said recently: "I am going to Geneva determined to do my best to get a settlement in Korea and Indo-China, but I am going without any illusions about the kind of people the Chinese Communists...
...Indo-China. In Indo-China, French Union forces have been fighting a costly and difficult military campaign against local Communist forces. It has been a gruelling struggle for the three young nations of Indo-China (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos) and a severe drain on the manpower and resources of our old friends and allies, the French. The Communist threat in Indo-China is directed not only against the aspirations of the Indo-Chinese peoples as they emerge to nationhood, but menaces the whole of Southeast Asia and its rich raw-material resources. Britain has a strong and direct interest...
...absurd to ask the Russians to help us in settling the Indo-China conflict if we slap their faces before Geneva," said Radical-Socialist Edgar Faure, the Finance Minister. "I am hostile toward any initiative before the Geneva Conference...