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Unsanctified Facts. The next day the discussions focused on Indo-China and the defense of Southeast Asia. Anthony Eden did not apologize for the backhanded insults he dealt Foster Dulles in his House of Commons speech, but he did say he regretted having raised a storm of dissent in the U.S. by proposing a Far Eastern Locarno. Eden said that he had no idea the proposals would evoke such sharp dissent in the U.S.-a statement that was hard to take at face value...
...divided between West and East. Said he: "We don't encourage West Germany to go to war to change that fact, but we don't feel we should sanctify it." Eden's Locarno proposal would mean sanctifying whatever peace terms the collapsed French may concede in Indo-China, Dulles said. He explained: "If we entered into a Locarno-type pact in Asia, we would be pledged to maintain this Communist system." The meeting concluded with "generalized" agreement that a defense network for Southeast Asia ought...
Over orange juice with the Premier of France, this suave, well-mannered ex-terrorist calmly disposed of nations and peoples (see below). He promised grandly that the French could keep a "cultural interest: in Indo-China. France would keep little else. Chou put it diplomatically: China wanted to be the protector of all three independent Indo-Chinese states. In a matter of months, thousands of gallant Vietnamese who had pledged their lives to the free world's promises would be handed over by default to their ruthless enemies...
...loss of Indo-China would not be fatal to the anti-Communist cause in Asia...
...reiterated British insistence that any Western plans for Asia must wait on India's Nehru, then launched a new proposal for an international guarantee for any Indo-Chinese settlement, "a reciprocal arrangement in which both sides take part, such as Locarno [see box]." Said Eden...