Research Catalog

Title

Anthony Eden, Anglo-American relations and the 1954 Indochina crisis / Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones.

Author

Ruane, Kevin

Publication

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

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Details

Additional Authors

Jones, Matthew, 1966-

Description

xi, 337 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subjects

• United States
• Great Britain
• United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain
• Diplomatic relations
• Eden, Anthony, Earl of Avon, 1897-1977
• Indochinese War (1946-1954)
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1945-1964
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States
• United States > Foreign relations > 1953-1961
• 1945-1964
• Indochinese War, 1946-1954

Contents

Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Map -- Introduction: Anthony Eden, Anglo-American relations and the 1954 Indochina crisis -- Indochina, 1951-52: the Chinese dimension -- Indochina, 1952-53: the Vietminh dimension -- Indochina, 1953: dimensions converge -- Vietnam in the shadow of the bomb, 1953 -- From Bermuda to Dien Bien Phu, 1953-54 -- Uniting for action, March-April 1954 -- Disunited inaction, April 1954 -- "He lied to me," April 1954 -- 25 April 1954: "The day we didn't go to war" -- The Geneva Conference: opening skirmishes -- The fall of Dien Bien Phu, May 1954 -- "The most troubled international scene I can ever recall" -- Geneva: Phoenix Rising, June 1954 -- The Geneva Settlement, July 1954 -- SEATO, 1954-1955 -- Geneva suborned -- Conclusion: Eden, Indochina and Suez -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 19-11538

ISBN

• 9781350021174
• 1350021172

OCLC

1102599712

Author

Ruane, Kevin, author.

Title

Anthony Eden, Anglo-American relations and the 1954 Indochina crisis / Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones.

Publisher

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Type of Content

text

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1945-1964

Added Author

Jones, Matthew, 1966- author.

Other Form:

Electronic version: Ruane, Kevin. Anthony Eden, Anglo-American relations and the 1954 Indochina crisis. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic 2019 9781350021167 (OCoLC)1110486409

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11538