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...Unmailed Letter. Eden begins by coldly surveying Dulles' self-avowed 1954 "brinkmanship" during the last days of the Indo-China war. Dulles first raised the possibility of U.S. military intervention soon after the siege of Dienbienphu began. He was pessimistic about the French, says Eden, and saw them "inevitably ceasing to be a great power." The U.S. was considering sending air and naval units to help the French, provided that 1) France promised to give the Indo-Chinese states their independence, and 2) Britain and other U.S. allies would support the U.S. The British answer, says Eden...
Eden describes a meeting in Paris shortly before the fall of Dienbienphu, when Dulles handed a letter offering U.S. armed aid in Indo-China to French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. Dulles asked Bidault to read it and decide whether he wanted it sent to him officially. (The point: if Bidault said no, it would then be legitimate, by diplomatic standards, for all hands to deny that any such offer had been made.) Finally, says Eden, the U.S. considered a naval air strike at Dienbienphu on April 28, 1954, but was deterred by British objections. (Dulles, Eden says, later minimized...
...mines and on plantations, to load ships and build roads and carry burdens. Each new trading city-Penang, Singapore, Malacca, Hong Kong-became heavily Chinese. As agents and middlemen, the ubiquitous Chinese followed the Dutch troops into Sumatra, Borneo and Celebes, the British into Burma, the French into Indo-China. Even in Thailand, which never became a European colony, the Chinese were advisers to the king, and controlled the nation's commerce...
...needling questions: Why does the U.S. back dictators like Chiang Kai-shek and Franco? Why does the U.S. arm Pakistan, India's obvious enemy? Why are Negroes oppressed in the South? Last month, when quietly competent U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker addressed the first session of the newly formed Indo-American Society in rambunctious, left-wing Calcutta (where Eisenhower was burned in effigy in 1956), he was astonished to find that it had already a thousand dues-paying members. Eleven months ago a poll in Madras, asking which "Europeans" were most preferred by Indians, was won by the British with...
Words & Deeds. Early in the week Moscow had made a plain bid to undercut the U.N. subcommittee by proposing that the nine nations that attended the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indo-China should meet again and revive the three-power (India, Poland, Canada) International Control Commission for Laos. The U.S., recalling that the Laos government itself 16 months ago refused to tolerate the Control Commission's interference any longer, rejected the Soviet proposal, recommended instead "the cessation of Communist intervention and subversion" in Laos. Backing up its words with deeds, the U.S. continued to pour into Vientiane light military...