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...eyes of many Americans, the worst result of Berlin was the agreement to negotiate on Korea and Indo-China at the April conference in Geneva. In French eyes, this was the best result. Reporting last week to the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, Foreign Minister Georges Bidault said: "The situation in Europe is identical with what it was before ... but the results on Asia would in themselves justify the meeting of the four ministers." Proudly and perhaps unwisely, M. Bidault represented the Geneva agreement as a concession he had wrung from Dulles in return for Bidault...
Before Berlin, Bidault was asked what he would do if the Russians presented him with a clear bargain: peace in Indo-China if France would abandon EDC. Bidault replied sarcastically that he didn't expect to see cards like that placed on the table. "The Russians," he said, "never play anything but clubs." Now, however, that there was something else to wait for -the Geneva conference in April-anti-EDC voices were again heard in Paris. Their new refrain: France must not provoke the Russians by approving EDC so long as there is a chance of ending the Indo...
...Peking. Eight weeks from now the Ministers will gather again in Geneva. Their agenda is already agreed upon, and at U.S. insistence, confined to specific issues: the Korean peace conference (which 48 days of wrangling at Panmunjom failed to bring about), and "the problem of restoring peace in Indo-China...
France, and so long as I hold that office, it is for me to interpret French opinion." Now Dulles was alarming U.S. allies in Asia (Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek), and risking the displeasure of many Americans (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), in agreeing to talk about Indo-China...
...hours' notice, newsmen were called to Saigon's colonnaded Palais Norodom, the seat of French government in Indo-China. There one day last week, beneath whirring fans and a lacquer painting of junks, they were confronted by the two top Frenchmen in Asia: Commanding General Henri Eugene Navarre, and Maurice Dejean, the Commissioner General...