Editorial Note
On March 23, 1954, Secretary of State Dulles issued a news conference statement on the situation in Indochina. The Secretary said that he did not expect a Communist victory in Indochina and saw no reason to abandon the Navarre Plan. He affirmed the determination of the United States to continue to respond to French requests for funds and military matériel for the conduct of the war. He also stated, with regard to the possibility of a negotiated settlement being achieved at the Geneva Conference, that he saw no evidence that Communist China had changed its “aggressive, militaristic and expansionist mood.”
For text of the statement, issued as Press Release No. 154, March 23, see Department of State Bulletin, April 5, 1954, pages 512–513.