Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-15
Paris Talks Improved
Allied Unity on Asia,
Dulles Says on Arrival
By JONES E. Roper

Is d s . i
Secretary of State Dulles re-
ported to President Eisenhower
and the National Security Coun-
Gil today on his Paris talks
which, he said. brought about q
United States British French
understanding on Indo- China,
much more complete than has
heretofore existed"
Mr.. Dulles went directly to the
White House from National Air
port after arriving from two
days of talks with French Pre-
mier Pierre Mendes-France and
British Foreign Secretary An
thony Eden.
Mr.. Dulles declared at the air.
port that the three Western
powers, found a formula for
constructive allied unity which
will have a beneficial effect on
the Geneva Conference" now
negotiating a ceaSe-f1re agree
ment for Indo-C China.
Mr.. Dulles made no public
statement about details Of the
Paris talks or the outlook for
Geneva, where the United States
will be represented by Undersec-
rotary Of State Walter Bedell
Smith.
Talks at White House.
These secrets were reserved for
Gen. Eisenhower and the Secur-
ity Council. The President re-
ceived Mr.. Dulles shortly after
10 am. and spent 20 minutes
hearing the Secretary's first
hand account of the Paris con-
versations. Then the pair joined
the Security Council at it's weekly
meeting. Mr.. Dulles spent an
hour there.
The United States had feared
that France was about to give the
Communists an Indo-C Chinese
settlement too liberal for the
United States to accept AS Mr..
Dulles returned from an effort to
head of such a possibility. there
was no indication Of how sue
cessful he had been except for
the fact that at least the United
States is sending Gen. Smith to
Geneva to sit in on the talks.
British Ambassador Sir Roger
Makins and French Ambassador
Henri Bonnet met Mr.. Dulles at
National Airport.
Issues Statement.
Mr.. Dulles read statement
which had been typed out dur
ing the overnight flight from
Paris and then headed for the
White House. The statement
follows:
81 return from consultation at
Paris with the new French Prime
Minister and Foreign Minister M.
Pierre Mendes-France. These
talks were also participated in by
Mr.. Anthony Eden, the British
Foreign Secretary.
These talks have brought
about an understanding con-
corning Indo-C China much more
complete than has heretofore
existed. It enabled US to demon
strate anew the solidarity of
Western powers in the face of
Communist hostility and in
trigue.
THE United States has been
concerned to find a way whereby
1t could help France, Wet Nam.
Laos and Cambodia find accept
able settlements without in any
way prejudicing basic principles
to which the United States must
adhere If it is To be true to it
self, and If the captive and en-
dangered peoples OF the world
are to feel that the United States
really believes in liberty.
Briefs Mendes-France.
IT had the opportunity in
Paris fully to explain the United
States position in this respect to
M. Mendes-France, whom I had
known before but whom / had
not met since he assumed his
new Offices.
THE conclusion was that we
would ask the Undersecretary of
State. Gen. Walter Beden Smith,
to return to Geneva at an early
date to renew his participation
in the Indo-C China phase Of the
conference. But this is on the
understanding, to which both
the French and British minis
tiers expressly agreed, that re-
newed participation by the
United States at the ministerial
level will be without departing
from the United States prin-
ciples which I have described.
II believe that we have found
a formula for constructive allied
unity which will have a bene-
fetal effect on the Geneva con-
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