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...plain fact was that the British, not the French, had become the appeasers of Geneva. From Geneva, confidential dispatches went back to the British Cabinet complaining of Bidault's "truculence" toward the Communists, as if that were a sin. "We are the only ones with a policy for Indo-China." the British told newsmen. "Our policy is that we will not fight in Indo-China." They added: "The French should have done what Britain did in India and Burma right after the war. We can't go in now to make it stick. You have to have land...
...last week the British had finally allowed its military representatives to begin staff-level talks on Southeast Asia with Australia, New Zealand, France and the U.S., it had promised that the talkers would take no decision. At a special Saturday Cabinet meeting, Eden argued that he could solve the Indo-China problem-if he just had enough time. The only problem was what the British call "American impatience" and the advance of the Viet Minh in the Red River Delta. He did not mention that the "decisive" two-week period he had previously talked about had now passed indecisively...
...world diplomat before the unmoved men of Communism. He dined Chou Enlai; he conferred privately with Molotov, warning him with the air of a man who would never do such a thing himself that if the Communists asked for too much, the U.S. might get mad and make Indo-China another "Korea." He seemed willing to nibble at the smallest bait. British trade delegations flew in to confer with Chou En-lai about increased British-Chinese trade, and the Foreign Office announced happily that the Chinese had agreed to let some British businessmen leave and allow others to come...
...firmness reflected and helped increase some sense of a new firmness in France itself. The fall of Dienbienphu had not led to hysterical demands for peace at any price, as the Communists had hoped. French pride was offended. French anger aroused. At the much feared debate on Indo-China, French Assemblymen had cried not for immediate surrender, but for more vigorous efforts to meet new Viet Minh attacks. The Cabinet itself reacted. It pledged itself to the defense of the whole Red River Delta. Marc Jacquet, an apostle of despair, was forced out. General Navarre was relieved, and General Paul...
...Indo-China, at last something was stirring. The Americans had long advocated it; the French, though skeptical, were about ready to let the Americans try it. The plan: U.S. Army instructors would train a big, new Vietnamese army, starting some time this summer, as they had once trained the South Koreans and the Greeks. The objective: five new Vietnamese divisions ready for action this year; four more Vietnamese, one Laotian and three Cambodian divisions ready...