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...days. Mendès-France's reported terms-abandonment of Northern Viet Nam and the Red River Delta, in return for a neutralized Laos and Cambodia-exactly accorded with the bargain Britain had long privately advocated. Eden put off his departure to confer through Saturday afternoon with Molotov, Chou and France's Jean Chauvel, hammering out an agreement that representatives of "the two sides" would meet immediately in Geneva or "on the spot" to discuss "the withdrawal of all foreign armed forces and of foreign military personnel" from both Laos and Cambodia, and report back to the conference...
Grave Doubts. At the formal conference, Smith said plaintively that he had seen the proposal only ten minutes before it was presented. He warned grimly that withdrawal of "foreign military personnel" (suggested by Molotov) would deprive Laos and Cambodia of French military advisers, or of any right to outside technical or military assistance. He also expressed "grave doubts" that the military conversations would actually result in the withdrawal of Viet Minh invaders from Laos and Cambodia, since the Communists still insist that the Viet Minh were only ''volunteers." The British and the French shrugged. The Communists...
Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier, Foreign Minister at the time of Munich and now a man Molotov praises, struck first. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, he cried, had "failed to get anywhere at all." Bidault, just off the train from Geneva and even more sleepy-lidded than usual, confessed that he could not report "promise of certain success" at Geneva...
...Stalin's time, his name came first in all published lists of gatherings. After Stalin died, the lists began with Malenkov, Beria and Molotov. Then they became Malenkov, Molotov (considered a foreign affairs specialist and out of the running) and Khrushchev...
Last week Pravda for the first time published all the top leaders' names in alphabetical order. Malenkov's no longer led; he was down in the M's with Molotov. Defense Minister Bulganin came first. Malenkov might resent being in the middle, but could take consolation in the fact that in the Russian alphabet, the English KH is written as X, making his chief rival, Khrushchev, last on the list...