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...Future. "A stage has been attained," concluded Mendes. "Now other stages present themselves." Mendès planned more deadlines. Within the next seven days he would demand "full powers" to make over France's backward economy. Within 14 days he expected to improve French relations with the embittered North African nationalists. His dynamism was unquestioned, and it had gained him the most notable French popularity since postliberation De Gaulle. Yet the cruel fact of this dynamism was that it had forced through an agreement that consecrated the delivery of 12 million Vietnamese to Communism, and that crippled...
...snapped Mendès in his best deadline style, "what will be done tomorrow?" South Viet Nam would get its independence, with French "technical assistance"; the French army would remain in South Viet Nam if the Vietnamese wanted it. That was all. There was more applause...
...Mendès' critics seemed less perturbed by Geneva itself than by their fear that Mendes might get too much of the credit. Only Georges Bidault dared to compare Geneva to Munich; he drew only skimpy applause from his own Roman Catholic M.R.P. Party, and short shrift from Mendès. By a thundering vote, of 462 to 13, with 152 absent or abstaining (the latter mostly from Bidault's M.R.P.), the Assembly hailed "the cessation of hostilities in Indo-China, due in large measure to the decisive action of the Premier...
...there much evidence that Mendès intended to exert his dynamism to press really hard for EDC; he remained vulnerable, in the deathly climate of Geneva, to Communist pressure against the No. 1 objective of U.S. cold war strategy: the rearmament of Germany. "In Mendès-France's office in the Quai d'Orsay," cabled TIME correspondent André Laguerre, "I could hear the worn old cry: 'We must do nothing brutal to provoke the Communists...
...Mendès is honest. He commands respect and admiration, and no objective review of his performance can avoid that conclusion. He inherited a situation which had already been rendered disastrous by the inability of France to defend Indo-China, and in that desperate situation, the Geneva agreement is not entirely...