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Dulles was impressed with the position, and the man. After 24 hours of hectic and earnest talk, Mendès returned to Geneva with Dulles' promise to send Bedell Smith back to Geneva...
...Mendès plunged ahead with a new confidence. Before, he had let it be known that he would consider partition of Viet Nam at the 16th parallel (the Communists demanded the 14th). But on his return, he proposed division at the 18th (see map, p. 22), which is 140 miles to the north of his first boundary. "The American signature is surely worth a parallel or two," he told Viet Minh Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong cheerfully...
Counting the House. Last week the Mendès-France government was still too busy with its No. 1 preoccupation-Geneva-to give a considered answer to the U.S.-British proposal. Mendès-France has already promised, if he survives his July 20 deadline, to go before the National Assembly with some kind of proposal on EDC. Why not simply submit the EDC treaty as it is? John Foster Dulles asked him last week. Because it would not pass, replied Mendès. Dulles (who has relied on the consistently over-optimistic U.S. embassy estimates) said his information...
...Mendès still intends to put something before the Assembly. But now at last, Konrad Adenauer does not have to stake his future on the whim of the French Parliament...
Kick Upstairs. As Bastille Day (July 14) drew near again, word got around that the Prefect of Police and the new Mendès-France government were not hitting it off well. Baylot wanted to ban the traditional Red parade; some Cabinet ministers disagreed; Socialist supporters of the new regime, though antiCommunist, were anti-tough...