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Formosa. President Eisenhower, with Dulles' approval, canceled the Truman order that obliged the U.S. Seventh Fleet to protect the Communist mainland from Chiang Kai-shek's troops. This change created a threat, made it more hazardous for Mao to mass strength on the Korean, and Indo-Chinese borders...
...Indo-China. In a series of carefully mortised negotiations from Saigon to Washington to Paris, Dulles persuaded the French government to promise General Henri Navarre enough troops to carry out "the Navarre Plan" for defeating the Communist-led Viet Minh rebels. The U.S.'s quid for France's quo: a promise of $385 million in aid over the next year for the war in Indo-China. Under Dulles' pressure France also gave assurances of independence to the native states of Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. This meant that Indo-Chinese nationalists were no longer faced with...
...that Dulles had done nothing of the sort. Harold Stassen, whose Foreign Operations Administration took over the aid programs formerly under the State Department, set himself to carry out Policymaker Dulles' plans, responded promptly when State asked for $45 million for Iran and $385 million for the Indo-China...
First word of the negotiation talk reached Washington on the news tickers. "France today offered to negotiate with the Communists for peace in embattled Indo-China," began one dispatch. Coming as it did on top of the new U.S. decision to double aid to the French in Indo-China, and France's promise of a vigorous new military effort to beat the Reds (TIME, Sept. 28), the report shocked U.S. policymakers. "State Department officials were hopping mad," one correspondent reported. But when they read the complete text of Schumann's remarks and heard the hasty explanations of French...
...biggest and most important of the Indo-Chinese states, Viet Nam, was not so easily calmed. Assured at last of independence from France once the Communist threat is erased, the Vietnamese were in no mood to see their independence fall prey to a still strong and unreformed Ho Chi Minh. "The only way to end the war," said Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Van Tarn, "is to beat the Viet Minh militarily and disperse their armies . . . Negotiations would have the effect of giving the Viet Minh an enormous advantage over...