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...table affair, with all kinds of chances to create diversions and confusions. Furthermore, the U.S. feared that it might be thrown on the defensive in such a round-table conference, with Britain, perhaps, pressing for more trade with Communist China, or the French trying to unload their commitments in Indo-China, or the Indians calling for U.N. recognition of Communist China and the neutralization-if not surrender-of Formosa. Besides, Syngman Rhee had warned Dulles that South Korea would not sit in the conference if India were there...
...already responsive to the new fluidity, and is hoping to channel it. Western diplomats, analyzing Malenkov's big Kremlin speech (TIME, Aug. 17), concluded that Russia has decided to concentrate its attention on France: to stir up fears of German militarism, to dangle hopes of peace in Indo-China (the only cold war front conspicuously unmentioned by Malenkov) and to break up the Western coalition by concentrating on its weakest link. To judge by his speech, the Russians have now abandoned any real hope of winning over the Germans...
...just the opposite. Menen's schoolteachers assured him that, despite his Indian complexion, he was heir, "by virtue of my birth certificate," to all the wonderful inner characteristics that made Englishmen the most cultured, most advanced, most notable people in the world. They even argued that, despite his Indo-Irish parentage, he had, if he tried hard, an excellent chance of growing into an honest...
France got into the mess partly through wars (in Europe and Indo-China), but also because her economy is hopelessly out of date. The U.S. aid that has rehabilitated France has, in effect, done an excellent job of restoring a 1931-model automobile. The dents have been smoothed out. the engine tuned up, but it is fundamentally still the same old jalopy...
...National Assembly that France needs more reforms today to save her than she did in 1789. The reforms are not forthcoming. The only improvements offered so far have been negative: cut the arms budget, reduce pensions. A more popular save-all is also a Communist slogan: "Get out of Indo-China." Strategically, this would be disastrous for the entire Western world. Financially, it would be like knocking the trunk off that 1931 car: the car might run a bit more easily, but its engine capacity would not be improved...