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Dulles was in a somewhat awkward position. He expected the meeting to produce nothing new on the old problems-Korea, German unification, the European Defense Community, NATO, Indo-China. Such questions were, and would continue to be, under constant discussion among the three nations at several diplomatic levels. On the other hand, he did expect Salisbury and Bidault acting on instructions, to press for a Big Four meeting-a proposal to which Dulles did not want to say yes and could not, for amity's sake, flatly say no. To avoid raising hopes either at home or abroad, Dulles...
...department every French politician has in mind, but has not yet dared meddle with, is defense. France's annual military expenditure accounts for about 37% of the budget. Of this amount nearly half, including a half-billion-dollar contribution from the U.S., drains away in the war in Indo-China. If that unpopular war, now in its seventh year, could be brought to a close, France's economic problem might be solved. More than that, the country would be in better shape to play its part in the European Defense Community: with more troops at home it would...
...solutions. The expendable stand-in government of Premier Joseph Laniel was not talking truce last week, but it took the first move in setting up a situation from which advances might be made. It offered a larger measure of independence to Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, the states of Indo-China, to encourage them to take a larger share in their own defense...
...Indo-China...
...green felt hat arrived in Washington last week; his presence brought to 78 the number of diplomatic missions in the capital. Ourot R. Souvannavong, a 45-year-old jurist, is the first minister to the U.S. from the Oregon-sized, jungle-blanketed kingdom of Laos in French Indo-China...