Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
On Prelude to Geneva Conference
c. April 1954

Ever since the Berlin agreement to seek peace in Indochina, the Communist forces have stepped up the intensity and the scope of their aggression. They have expended their manpower in reckless assaults, apparently designed to improve their bargaining position at Geneva. That is not a good prelude to Geneva.

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