Pub Date : 2019-07-25DOI: 10.5040/9781350021204.ch-001
K. Ruane, Matthew Jones
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a “united action” coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker – even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American “special relationship”. In this important study, Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War.
1954年春，经过八年的艰苦战斗，法国和共产党领导的越盟之间的越南战争进入了白热化阶段。由于法国军队陷入困境，美国计划进行军事干预，以支持反共立场。德怀特·d·艾森豪威尔(Dwight D. Eisenhower)领导的美国政府转向盟友寻求支持，首先是英国，试图建立国务卿约翰·福斯特·杜勒斯(John Foster Dulles)所说的“联合行动”联盟。结果，温斯顿•丘吉尔(Winston Churchill)领导的保守党政府拒绝支持该计划。在这本重要的研究中，凯文·鲁恩和马修·琼斯重温了冷战时期英国外交在解决国际战争与和平的关键问题上发挥了至关重要的作用。然而，这本书让人想起了一个更早的伊甸园:一个技艺精湛、经验丰富的国际外交家，在他权力的巅峰时期，很可能阻止了一场局部的冷战危机升级为第三次世界大战。
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350021204.ch-009
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350021204.ch-014
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350021204.ch-007
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350021204.ch-002
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350021204.ch-015
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.5040/9781350021204.ch-005
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