Research Catalog

Title

The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina / James Cable.

Author

Cable, James, 1920-

Publication

Basingstoke : Macmillan, 2000.

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Details

Description

xiv, 179 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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 anybody." "Perhaps Churchill was right: jaw-jaw is better than war-war. Certainly this first-hand, updated 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 21st century to follow."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Conférence de Genève
• Genf > Indochina-Konferenz (1954)
• Geneva Conference (1954)
• 1945-1964
• Indochinese War, 1946-1954 > Peace
• Indochinese War, 1946-1954 > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1945-1964

Genre/Form

Genf (1954)

Note

• "First edition 1986. Reprinted (with new preface and minor alterations) 2000"--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-165) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Illustrations -- Preface to the 2000 Reprint -- Introduction (starting p. 1) -- 1 French Attitudes and British Expectations (starting p. 14) -- 2 Waiting upon Events (starting p. 27) -- 3 Changing Course (starting p. 41) -- 4 The Crisis of April (starting p. 51) -- 5 Geneva: Tuning Up (starting p. 66) -- 6 Prelude and Fugue (starting p. 72) -- 7 Restricted Sessions: Restricted Results (starting p. 80) -- 8 Phoenix from the Ashes (starting p. 91) -- 9 France Takes the Lead (starting p. 102) -- 10 Last Act (starting p. 115) -- 11 Myths (starting p. 129) -- 12 Epilogue (starting p. 136) -- App. 1 The Seven Points (starting p. 145) -- App. 2 The Final Declaration (starting p. 146) -- Notes and References (starting p. 149) -- Select Bibliography (starting p. 164) -- Index (starting p. 166).

ISBN

0333790006

OCLC

• 45339785
• SCSB-12321689

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library