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...Indo-China, April 1954. Dulles flew to London to advocate united action to save the French fortress at Dienbienphu. Dulles returned believing the British had agreed to support him, but two weeks later "the British had had a change of heart." Nonetheless, Dulles now contends, his readiness to intervene in Indo-China gave the British and French a basis of strength from which they negotiated the truce agreement at Geneva. Shepley wrote: "Dulles had seen to it that the Chinese and the Soviets knew that the U.S. was prepared to act decisively to prevent the fall of all of Southeast...
Dulles summed up the historical argument: "Nobody is able to prove mathematically that it was the policy of deterrence which brought the Korean war to an end and which kept the Chinese from sending their Red armies into Indo-China, or that it has finally stopped them in Formosa. I think it is a pretty fair inference that...
...Verge of War." Dulles explained to Shepley that his concept of retaliation did not mean the starting of World War III, but the fitting of the punishment to the crime. Limited targets in the Korea and Indo-China crises, for example, were selected in the event that retaliation became necessary. "They were specific targets reasonably related to the area. They did not involve massive destruction of great population centers like Shanghai, Peking or Canton. Retaliation must be on a selective basis. The important thing is that the aggressor know in advance that he is going to lose more than...
Cambodia (pop. over 4,000,000) is a country of Buddhists lying directly in the path of Communist expansion in Southeast Asia. During the Indo-China war, three battalions of Vietminh Communist troops entered Cambodia, and Red China claimed that a "resistance" government was in being. But after last year's general election in which Norodom, stepping down from the throne to lead his own political party, won all 91 seats of the National Assembly, the Communists reversed their tactic. With soft words, Communist Leader Ho Chi Minh suggested a diplomatic exchange with Norodom. Nothing doing, replied Norodom. "Your...
From the Basses-Pyrenees to the Haut-Rhin, from the Pas-de-Calais to the Bouches-du-Rhone, voters had good reason to think of Algeria: many of their sons and husbands are there. Unlike the war in Indo-China, where only volunteers were sent (many of them Germans in the Foreign Legion, or African Negroes), the police action in Algeria has been largely waged by French conscripts-reservists called back to the service, and draftees held overtime...