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There was confusion and there was calculated delay. When the Communists finally agreed to a conference including the three Associated States (Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia) provided the Communist Viet Minh were invited, and agreed to discuss a battlefield truce at the conference, Bidault discovered that no representatives of the three Associated States were on hand (he had not bothered to discuss the situation with them seriously before going to Geneva...
...Dienbienphu writhed in its last agony, the Viet Minh representatives arrived in triumph. They were met by China's Chou Enlai, Russia's Gromyko, and North Korea's Nam II, while a French aide frantically telephoned the Quai d'Orsay: "Send me three Vietnamese in a hurry! Otherwise we shall produce my cook-he's a Vietnamese...
...Free" elections, not only in Viet Nam but also in Laos and Cambodia, without outside supervision. The Communists would get half the seats in the electoral bodies, giving them effective control...
...Communists were grabbing for Laos and Cambodia, as well as Viet Nam. But with most Frenchmen ignorant of the pitfalls in such a ceasefire, and impatient for peace, Bidault would find it difficult to reject it out of hand. Commented Bidault: "Very able and very specious. It would mean the complete swallowing of Indo-China by the Viet Minh...
...staff of the French armed forces, flew to Washington in late March did the U.S. Chiefs of Staff realize how serious France's plight in Indo-China was. Ely told them for the first time that the French might lose Dienbienphu, and with it, the whole of Viet Nam. JCS Chairman Admiral Radford left Ely with the impression that he personally was ready and willing to send in carrier planes if the French asked for them...