Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The War against Japan Had the South East Asia Department Emerge in the Foreign Office
- Chapter 3 The East of Suez Review: Détente for South East Asia?
- Chapter 4 The British Path towards Negotiations on Indo-China
- Chapter 5 The British Path towards the Partition of Vietnam
- Chapter 6 The Annamitic or Vietnamized Divide and Barrier of the ‘Smaller Dragon’
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Appendix: Maps
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 The War against Japan Had the South East Asia Department Emerge in the Foreign Office
- Chapter 3 The East of Suez Review: Détente for South East Asia?
- Chapter 4 The British Path towards Negotiations on Indo-China
- Chapter 5 The British Path towards the Partition of Vietnam
- Chapter 6 The Annamitic or Vietnamized Divide and Barrier of the ‘Smaller Dragon’
- Chapter 7 Conclusion
- Appendix: Maps
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The world is the British people's stage; we have to span it and to focus it.
–Anthony Eden, Places in the sun, 1926.What I did NOT want to do was to have anything connected with the war in Asia! I would much sooner drift further West than to Eastwards again.
–Diary entry for 14 September 1943 by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall upon being appointed chief of staff to the supreme commander, South East Asia Command.Sir Winston S. Churchill wrote no memoirs on his post-war administration (1951–5) and as regards UK diplomatic contribution to a peaceful end to the warfare in Indo-China in 1954, the role of Prime Minister Churchill has tended to be historiographically more obscure than that of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. Churchill's enthusiasm for détente during his post-war prime ministership has been considered to date from the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953 and be confined mainly to Europe. The preceding Labour government had recognized the Communist regime in China, but little attention has been paid to the Asiatic dimension of Churchill's détente policy and his overall world view in that connection.
British policy towards Indo-China is addressed in this study in relation to its global connections enunciated by Churchill, while out of office, as the ‘three circles’, according to which the United Kingdom was geopolitically seen as bridging North America and the European continent as well as having ties with commonwealth and imperial positions.
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- Churchill, Eden and Indo-China , pp. 1 - 8Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010