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The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina

By James Cable (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2000
ISBN
978-0-333-79000-7, 978-0-230-59925-3, 0-333-79000-6
DOI
10.1057/9780230599253
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15532586 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIV, 190\202
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Asian History; International Relations; Regional a

Description

The Geneva Agreements of 1954 were widely welcomed. They ended a seven-year war in Indochina; gave France a dignified exit; averted wider conflict. In later years first Americans and Vietnamese, then Russians, Chinese, Cambodians and even Laotians tried to force Indochina into different patterns of their own devising. These new wars triggered by rejection of the Geneva compromise lasted longer, killed more people, did greater damage and achieved less - for everybody. Perhaps Churchill was right: jaw-jaw is better than war-war. Certainly this lively, first-hand, up-dated account of the Geneva Conference of 1954 - that triumph of old-fashioned diplomacy, which Britain initiated and France completed - offers a better model for the twenty-first century to follow.

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