Sallied unity AT GENEVA

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27404, 17 July 1954, Page 7

Sallied unity AT GENEVA

Dulles Returns From Talks WASHINGTON, July 15. The United States Secretary of late (Mr Dulles) said today on his eram from the three-Power Paris jjks: “ffe have found a formula for •nstructive Allied unity which will ave a beneficial effect on the Geneva inference. “And it carries no danger that the r!‘ed States will abandon its priniples,” Mr Dulles said. Laving aside a prepared statement, he Secretary of State said he was oing immediately to the White House to report to the President about IndoJina.” Mr Dulles made these statements jefore a battery of cameras a few naments after he arrived from the >aris talks with France’s Prime Miniser Mr Pierre Mendes-France, and Jritain’s Foreign Secretary, Mr R. A. [den. -These talks have brought about an ciderstanding concerning Indo-China nuch more complete than has heretoore existed,” said Mr Dulles. “They cabled us to demonstrate anew the oiidaritv of the Western Powers in Ee face’ of Communist hostility and ttigue.” “Basic Principles” Mr Dulles said the United States had sen concerned to find a way to help ?rance. Vietnai i. Laos, and Cambodia o reach “acceptable settlements wither in any way prejudicing the basic

principles to which the United States nust adhere if it •is to be true to itself, and if the captive and endangered peoples of the world are to feel hat the United States really believes n liberty.” Mr Dulles added: “I had the oppormity in Paris fully to explain the United States position in this respect io Mr Mendes-France, whom I had inown before, but whom I had not fiet office he assumed his new offices.” IThe conclusion was that Mr Walter Bedell Smith, the Under-Secretary of State, was to renew his participation a the Indo-China phase of the con“But,” Mr Dulles added firmly, “this is on the understanding, to which both the British and French Ministers expressly agreed, that renewed participation by the United States at the Ministerial level will be without departing from the United _ States principles which I had described.” Mr Dulles drove directly from the airport to the White House, where he received a warm welcome from President Eisenhower, and the two American leaders immediately went into conference.