Abstract
Anthony Eden's biographer called the final declaration of the 1954 Geneva accords “one of the most remarkable diplomatic achievements of the post-war world.”1 Although they had humiliated the French militarily, the Vietminh had nevertheless agreed to an armistice, a regrouping of military forces, a temporary partition of Vietnam until July 1956, when internationally supervised “all-Vietnam” elections would take place, and an ambiguous neutrality for Laos and Cambodia. Even Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who had opposed formal recognition of Vietminh superiority in the North, recognized that the agreements were more favorable than the situation on the ground. Eden, who had shared the title of conference cochairman with Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov of the Soviet Union, returned to overwhelmingly positive press in London.2 Prime Minister Winston Churchill praised his foreign secretary in the House of Commons, breaking house rules by referring to him as “Anthony Eden” rather than...
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