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...increasingly hostile, increasingly apprehensive of Mendèes' course. MRPers repeated their charge that Mendes planned a complete capitulation to the Communists. Snapped Bidault: "Never before has one Frenchman done as much to cut off the arms France extends to her allies." In the press, Maurice Schumann, longtime Quai d'Orsay lieutenant of Robert Schuman, launched a series of articles accusing Mendèes of "isolating" France and thus paving the way toward a disastrous slide into the Communist orbit. The Communist negotiators, Mendes retorted, "will recognize specifically, if they should be tempted to forget it, that every...
Hope for a Civilian. Francis Lacoste is no stranger to Morocco. In 1947 he was the Quai d'Orsay's delegate to Marshal Alphonse Juin's Moroccan Residency. Although he was no policymaker, he became an expert on Moroccan peasant problems and maintained friendly relations with the now-deposed Ben Youssef. A graduate of the University of Paris' School of Political Science, he served diplomatic apprenticeships in Belgrade and Peking, returned to France during World War II, fought in the resistance, won a Croix de Guerre. Since the war he has had tours in Washington...
...Dienbienphu writhed in its last agony, the Viet Minh representatives arrived in triumph. They were met by China's Chou Enlai, Russia's Gromyko, and North Korea's Nam II, while a French aide frantically telephoned the Quai d'Orsay: "Send me three Vietnamese in a hurry! Otherwise we shall produce my cook-he's a Vietnamese...
...days later, Dulles issued his call for "united action." What he actually envisioned was a show of united determination to give the West bargaining strength at Geneva to offset Dienbienphu. By the time the news got out from London and Paris (through Foreign Office and Quai D Orsay leaks), Dulles' plan and his later warning that Chinese intervention was coming "awfully close" to direct intervention had become something else. In the British and French press, the plan, coupled with the memory of threats of "massive retaliation," grew to an "ultimatum." The British began to see visions of H-bombs...
That afternoon Admiral Arthur Radford flew in from the U.S., went straight from the airport to confer with Dulles, then met Eden and Bidault. At 4 o'clock the three Western ministers met for a final conference at the Quai d'Orsay. Bidault admitted frankly that the fall of Dienbienphu was a matter of days, if not hours. Bidault discussed the possibility of the U.S. and Britain sending planes or troops. Both Eden and Bidault agreed that the best answer was the Southeast Asia pact, which only two weeks ago they had both viewed with misgivings. But such...