Lesueur
Well, if France were to negotiate now in Indochina, sir, I suppose it would be a negotiation from weakness, would it not?
Munro
Well, that depends on how you approach negotiations. After all, we were ready to negotiate in Korea, and that didn't show weakness, did it? I don't think it did, at any rate. Now as a matter as the french are concerned, I know what a terrible drain this is on their men and their resources. but if the Chinese, if the Vietminh was really in earnest, then if even though you negotiate from weakness that doesn't matter, provided you get a decent settlement. Whether you will or not, I don't know.