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...April 11-14: Dulles flew to London, talked to the British about a broad defense pact in Southeast Asia, looking toward direct intervention in Indo-China if needed. The British were reluctant to act before Geneva, and Dulles could not guarantee the British that the U.S. itself would go ahead; he could only say that, if the British agreed on "united action," he would be able to ask Congress. The British agreed only to "examine the possibility." The French took somewhat the same attitude, though they still talked of an air strike. As Laniel explained last week: "All solutions which...
...April 21: Dulles returned to Paris for pre-Geneva talks with Bidault and Eden. Two days later, a cable arrived from Indo-China which the British privately refer to as "Navarre's panic cable." Navarre said Dienbienphu was on the verge of falling, could be saved only by heavy air support either from the U.S. or Britain. Dulles again rejected the appeal both because it would be "war," which Congress would have to approve, and because U.S. military experts doubted that air strikes could now save the fortress. Bidault seemed to have got the idea from Dulles that congressional...
...that the Red Delta must be defended, not abandoned." Added the Spectator: "The fact that Britain and the U.S. ... decided not to attempt the virtually impossible-the relief of Dienbienphu-does not mean that they should refuse to attempt the possible-the effective defense of large remaining areas of Indo-China...
Eighteenth-Century France lost one empire-in India and North America-to British sea power. Her modern empire, still the world's largest, comprises Indo-China and a series of colonies strewn across the westward bulge of Africa in an area the size of the continental U.S. Total population: 79 million, one-third of which is in Indo-China...
...World War I, four old empires died: the Russian, Prussian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian. The rot spread to Asia, and from the Middle East to Indo-China, the surge towards independence stirred among a billion people. World War II rocked the remaining empires: Japan's was liquidated; so was Mussolini's. In the past ten years, 600 million Arabs and Asians have won political independence, established ten new sovereign states.* France, expelled from Syria and Lebanon after World War II, is on the way out of Indo-China. The once prosperous Dutch East Indies has become the unprosperous...