751G.00/2–454: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Achilles) to the Department of State
secret
Paris, February 4, 1954—5
p.m.
2852. Repeated information Berlin 202. Berlin for USDel. Maurice Schumann, like Laniel, expresses concern over effect here should Russians make some offer giving rise hopes that Indochina war would be terminated should France reject EDC. He adds that if such an offer were made, nature of official American reaction would be of great importance here, and expresses particular hope that such reaction would not be of nature as to give impression that US was blocking an Indochina settlement.
Achilles