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...choice of a new minister for Algeria suggested the line he hoped to follow. Leathery old (79) General Georges Catroux, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, has an unfortunate linkage in French minds with the French withdrawals from Syria, Lebanon and, in its first stages, the loss of Indo-China. When he accepted responsibility for Algeria last week, Catroux came out stoutly for a loosening of French authority over Algerians. "Algeria," said he, "cannot be treated like a French province. We must think of a statute that will give satisfaction to the Algerian personality. For example, a large administrative...
...slight smile. "I have a brief statement to make," he began, "about a matter which I judge to be of current interest." He noted that an article in LIFE, which had said that the U.S. policy of strength had deterred the Communists from full-scale war in Korea, Indo-China and the FormosL Strait "has attracted much comment." He then read a statement...
...fact that India receives U.S. aid," said Singh, "creates certain expectancies in the U.S. which India is rightly not willing to meet. That in turn creates disappointment and bitterness in the U.S., thus worsening Indo-American relations . . . The fact is, U.S. taxpayers are sick and tired of shelling out their money to foreign countries and particularly to countries which are not in their corner. And India is not in their corner...
...into war. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. We've had to look it square in the face-on the question of enlarging the Korean war, on the question of getting into the Indo-China war, on the question of Formosa. We walked to the brink and we looked it in the face. We took strong action. It took a lot more courage for the President than for me. His was the ultimate decision. I did not have to make the decision myself, only...
From London to New Delhi, diplomats and editorial writers pounced on Dulles. The British Foreign Office in effect challenged Dulles' interpretation of the end of the Indo-China war, denying that Britain had ever told Dulles it would intervene. British newspapers reflected concern that a revival of "tougher" U.S. diplomacy might now be in store. "A dance of death," cried the London Daily Mail. "Heaven protect us from this edgy gambler," said the Daily Mirror, "and his careless way of making his risky throws known to all the world...