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When a reporter mentioned Indo-China, the President seized the opportunity to clear up something that had been bothering him: the Washington rumor that he and John Foster Dulles differed on U.S. policy in that unhappy country. Said the President: That was not so. If there was any detectable difference in their recent utterances, it must be because of language, not intent. Naturally, Ike continued, all of us want to save Indo-China, but no nation can be saved for the free world unless it wants to be saved. He did not think the free world ought to write...
Wrapping the. tattered cloak of experience about them, the British stepped forward in the role of the honest broker and wise counselor. Question was: Can a man be an honest broker to a bad bargain? The broker's solution for the rot infecting Indo-China was partition of the country. That solution the British hoped to get at Geneva. Until they got it, or it proved impossible to get, they refused to discuss the future. "Our immediate task is to do everything we can to reach an agreed settlement at Geneva for the restoration of peace in Indo-China...
...deteriorated rapidly; 2) if the Chinese intervened openly; 3) if no settlement was reached at Geneva. Anthony Eden was both agitated by the question and angered at being left out. He rushed off to see U.S. Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith. If the U.S. intervenes militarily in Indo-China and the result is world war, said Eden, Britain would have to be on the U.S. side. But he warned that if the U.S. intervenes and the fighting remains localized, Britain would remain aloof-even if the Chinese retaliated by openly joining the fighting...
Britain, Eden emphasized, is not interested in intervening in Indo-China under any circumstances. The British are willing to talk about a Southeast Asian pact after Geneva, but only a pact designed to guarantee what may be left of a partitioned Indo-China as a kind of buffer state-not to help the French fight on. Partition must come first...
Even after reading it a few hours later, Bidault was only partly reassured. Said one French diplomat: "When you said Korea was outside your security line, the Communists attacked. What might they do if they believe you will not fight for Indo-China? We had felt that the U.S. was resolved to save as much as possible of Indo-China. Now how can we feel? Only that you will...