The Geneva Conference (on the crisis in east Asia) concludes: after two months of negotiations between the communist People’s Republic of (mainland/“Red”) China, the Republic of France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the The Viet Minh (“League for the Independence of Vietnam”), it is agreed to divide French Indochina into three nations: the Kingdom of Cambodia, ruled by Norodom Sihanouk; the Kingdom of Laos, ruled by Sisavang Vong; and the temporarily divided nations of Vietnam.  In the north the Democratic Republic of Vietnam would be a one party, Marxist-Leninist state.  In the south, the State of Vietnam would be ruled by the kleptocratic former Emperor Bao Dai.  Unification elections for Vietnam would take place within two years. 

       The conference was also supposed to settle the question of how to unify Korea, but got nowhere. 

       During the conference John Foster Dulles, Esq., de facto secretary of state, came face to face with Zhou Enlai, Premier of the communist People’s Republic of (mainland/”Red”) China, but refused to shake hands with him.

NOTE: As an attorney (Officer of the Court) Dulles was ineligible to serve in two branches of government at the same time, according to Article I, Section 6 [Clause 2].

       [restored 9/17/2022]