Anthony Eden, Anglo-American relations and the 1954 Indochina crisis
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Anthony Eden, Anglo-American relations and the 1954 Indochina crisis
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, c2019
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First published 2019
Includes bibliographical references (p. [312]-324) and index
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In the spring of 1954 the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States prepared to intervene militarily to prevent the further spread of communism. Turning to its allies, first and foremost Britain, to join in what the Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a 'united action' coalition. Far from agreeing to participate in a coalition, the British government set out to frustrate US military plans and to work instead for a peaceful negotiated resolution.
Ultimately fearing eruption of a Third World War from US intervention, the British envoy led by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden managed to broker a peaceful outcome. Professors Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones chart the history of this last occasion when British diplomacy played a key if not decisive role in resolving a fundamental issue of war and peace. Eden's diplomatic victory over the Americans in 1954 is nearly always overshadowed by the catastrophic political outcome for Britain and Eden in the Suez Crisis two year later.
This book, however, seeks to counter some of the retrospective blight that Suez has cast over his pre-1956 career and realign Eden's reputation with a more balanced perspective, taking a larger view of his influence on peace in Southeast Asia.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Fallen Idol - Anthony Eden and the Verdict of History
PART I: THE ROAD TO 1954
2. Britain, the United States, and the Asian Cold War, 1945-1951
3. Containing China: The Cold War defence of South-East Asia, 1951-1953
4. Backing France: The Britain and the Vietnam War, 1951-1953
PART II: THE CRISIS BREAKS
5. Korea Wanes, Vietnam Waxes, 1953
6. Countdown to Crisis, January-March 1954
7. From United Action to Disunited Inaction: April 1954
PART III: THE CRISIS RESOLVED
8. The Fall of Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Conference, May 1954
9. Special No More ...: The Breakdown of the Anglo-American Relationship in Asia, May-June 1954
10. Eden and the Settlement of the First Vietnam War, July 1954.
PART IV: REFLECTIONS
11. Saving the Peace, 1954-1956
12. The Shadow of Suez
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