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...system: two Republican and two Democratic. For the past 18 months Indiana's two Republican parties have been illustrating the proposition by engaging in a bitter political war. Last week, in the wake of primaries that shifted control of the party organization, there were few signs of a truce...
...newsmen covering the Geneva Conference last week was London and Manhattan Communist Daily Worker Correspondent Wilfred Burchett. Australian-born Correspondent Burchett was last seen by Western newsmen in Korea, where he worked as a Red propagandist, helped get "confessions" from prisoners and covered the war and truce negotiations from the Communist side (TIME, Aug. 6, 1951). In Geneva he left little doubt he was still on the same side. Wrote Burchett this week: "[The Communist] plan . . . for ending the war in Indo-China burst like a bombshell on the American and French delegation. It dissipated the pessimism among conespondents...
...French, who had never had a clearly defined will to victory in Indo-China, were seriously demoralized when the Americans, on a much more favorable battlefield, settled, down to a stalemate and then a truce in Korea. And around that Korean failure lay a still larger setting of weakness: the tendency of the non-Communist world to think of the cold war purely in terms of reaction to enemy action, to "repel aggression...
...week long, France's allies could only watch Georges Bidault's sufferings. They could not help. His desperate pleas for a battlefield truce to save Dienbienphu's wounded met with bland delay from the Communists. Behind him, France's divided government nagged at him. Burly Marc Jacquet, Minister for the Associated States, sent to Geneva to act as a kind of watchdog for the quick-truce faction, told everybody who would listen: "We must get peace!" For two days Bidault had to mark time while the Assembly debated a vote of confidence. "A Foreign Minister does...
There was confusion and there was calculated delay. When the Communists finally agreed to a conference including the three Associated States (Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) provided the Communist Viet Minh were invited, and agreed to discuss a battlefield truce at the conference, Bidault discovered that no representatives of the three Associated States were on hand (he had not bothered to discuss the situation with them seriously before going to Geneva...