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...defense of Indo-China...
...attack on French conduct of the Indo-China...
Next morning, in Anthony Eden's big Foreign Office suite, beneath a beaming portrait of George III, Eden, Dulles and France's Georges Bidault formally dug into their hasty pudding of problems, disputes and proposals: Korea, Indo-China, EDC, negotiations with Moscow. Eden was by now addressing Dulles as "Foster," while Dulles called him "Mr. Eden," and both addressed the third man as "Monsieur Bidault." On two urgent worries, they agreed on action: ¶ Invited Yugoslavia and Italy to sit down with them to talk over Trieste. They were somewhat disquieted by Tito's threat to march...
...contributed more clarity and force but has not essentially altered the U.S. line. His great contribution is at the middle level of specific policies. These are moral in the sense that they have a good end, not pursued by evil means. But such policies as Dulles pursued in Indo-China and Germany are not derived directly from moral principles but from facts of political reality in the world that exists...
Many of us also feel impatient when, like kids after a street fight, each side accuses the other of having started it. Did the Russians start it in Czechoslovakia in 1948? Or the French in Indo-China in 1945? Or the British in Greece in 1944? Any competent attorney could make a case either way. Blaming the other fellow is sterile diplomacy: it is more important to make a new start. (Hopes of such a new start are slightly stronger after some of the recent speeches of Mr. John Foster Dulles...