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as a card to play at Geneva. I pointed out that the Geneva game would doubtless be a long game and that it could not be assumed that at the end the present U.S. position regarding intervention would necessarily exist after the Communists had succeeded in dragging out Geneva by winning military successes in Indochina. This telegram of mine will bear rereading. That point of view has been frequently repeated in sub subsequent cables.

I deeply regret any sense of bitterness on Bidault's part, but I do not see that he is justified in considering unreasonable the adaption of U.S. views to events and the consequences of prolonged French and U.K. indecision.

I do not yet wholly exclude possibility U.S, intervention on terms outlined PARIS 402 TEDUL 54. UK it seems is now more disposed to see movement in this direction buy apparently the French are less than ever disposed to internationalizing the war.

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