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...Indo-China...
Sure, you pay 78% of the bill . . . But . . . until American soldiers join the fight in Indo-China, you have absolutely no right to say that French policy there is halfheartedly supported by a defeatist France. The IndoChina war is just as unpopular with the French people as the Korean war was with the Americans-with perhaps two slight differences: America fought for three years in Korea, France has been fighting for seven in Indo-China; America came to terms with the Communists at Panmunjom; "the sick man of Europe" is still fighting...
...world calendar, and with it loomed a kind of complex danger that had never before confronted the U.S. in its battle against Communist aggression. Beginning April 26. Britain, France and the U.S. are to sit down with Russia and Communist China to negotiate on Korea and Indo-China. In its own right, Indo-China is an increasingly dangerous war because the Communists are now fortified with the weapons and military commanders turned loose by the Korean armistice...
...Geneva's threat has another dimension: Indo-China is essential to anti-Communist defenses in Asia, but IndoChina is technically France's war, and France, tired of almost eight years of fighting, is determined to negotiate some kind of a settlement...
United Action. To Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, this situation demanded double-barreled action. First, the U.S. had to make up its own mind where it stood on Indo-China. (Only last February President Eisenhower had said that involvement in Indo-China would be the greatest kind of tragedy.) Within the fortnight, Dulles clarified the U.S. position in a quick series of speeches and statements: the U.S. could not countenance the loss of Indo-China, and was prepared to apply its doctrine of instant retaliation to Communist China if Peking should take a direct hand...