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...shock came at the first meeting of the three foreign ministers Thursday morning. Dulles and Eden found Bidault in a highly emotional state over Dienbienphu and the perilous prospects of the Laniel government. Because of Bidault's agitation, all Dulles was able to get was agreement on a note rejecting Moscow's demands for equal status for Red China at Geneva...
Midnight Talk. After more than two hours of glum consultation, the three separated. Dulles went off to see Premier Laniel, who formally asked him for help from U.S. air forces. Eden flew back to London, drove directly to Prime Minister Churchill's country home Chequers for a midnight talk. Next morning Churchill called Britain's top military men to an emergency Cabinet meeting-the first time the Cabinet has been summoned on a Sunday in nearly seven years. The Cabinet made the reluctant decision that they could not send either troops or planes to help the harassed French...
...Responsibilities." This sudden, uncompromising maneuver was part of little Georges Bidault's attempt to keep a promise he made to John Foster Dulles: before going off to Geneva, he would get a date set for France's too-long-postponed parliamentary decision on EDC. Three days later, Laniel announced that on May 18 he would formally ask the National Assembly's steering committee to set an "early" debate on EDC, perhaps May 25-if all three of Paris' preconditions are met by then...
...settlement with West Germany of the future of the Saar. West German Chancellor .. Konrad Adenauer, bucking strong feelings at home, is going more than halfway to meet French demands for economic control of the German-speaking Saar. But it will be difficult to achieve agreement by May 18, giving Laniel an excuse for more delay if he wants...
...avoid hard decisions and, if possible, even forthright expressions of opinion. Under Henri Queuille, the colorless compromiser, this technique made a name for itself: L'im-mobilisme. Queuille hung on as Premier for 388 days-a record for postwar France. Last week France's postwar Premier, Joseph Laniel, was hot on Queuille's trail. By an astute and unflagging practice of immobilisme, plus luck, Laniel passed the second-best (290-day) mark, set by Antoine Pinay, his arch rival in the Independent Party. If Laniel can last another 100 days, he will beat Queuille's record...