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...Paris, Secretary of State Dean Acheson came to quick agreement with France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman on deeding additional grants of power to the young French-blessed Emperor Bao Dai. Then Acheson flashed Washington to speed a $15 million program for military aid to the 180,000 French and native troops already locked in battle with the Indo-Chinese Communists. (The money had long been available in the $75 million that Congress had pressed on the Administration seven months ago for containment of Communism in Asia.) Within a few weeks the first shipment of tactical aircraft should...
...Lancaster House, the Western Big Three Foreign Ministers conferred for three days. Dean Acheson, crisp, clear and didactic, drove home his sharp points with a wagging forefinger. Britain's ailing Ernest Bevin, chomping away at his dentures, was his usual solid and grumpy self. France's Robert Schuman punctuated his speeches with faint smiles and exquisite little gestures of courtesy; he sat modestly hunched over the table, as if he were the least important man in the room...
...fact, last week, Schuman was the most important. The conference was dominated by his dramatic proposal to merge the French and German coal and steel industries. The proposal was far more than an imaginative economic project; it was the offer of full partnership to Germany by its thrice-invaded, long-suffering and long-hating enemy...
...stopped for a two-day parley with French leaders. His next stop would be London. There Acheson would first confer with Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, gaunt-faced (21 Ibs. below his usual 231) after an operation and three weeks in a hospital. Then France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman would join them for three-way discussions. Later, Acheson would meet with representatives of the nine other North Atlantic signatories...
...Minh, the French were using the bulk of their army (130,000), spending about $500 million a year, almost as much as their ECAllocation. Paris argued that IndoChina's defense was a joint Western concern: only U.S. aid could make it effective. After his exchange of views with Schuman, Acheson announced that the U.S. agreed and would give economic and military help to Indo-China...