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| 56. | Pham Van Dong (presently Premier, then Vice President) announced in 1950 that promulgation of the 1946 Constitution had been postponed "because several of its provisions require for their application the cessation of the state of war," and in 1951, after Ho had openly aligned with the Sino-Soviet powers, the Viet Minh radio explained that "a gang of traitors" had been evolved in its formulation, and hence a "progressive character was lacking." During the "Rectification of Errors," in late 1956, after the peasant uprisings of that year, the DRV set up a constitutional reform committee. In December, 1958, Ho invited the public to submit recommendations on a new draft basic law, and the second Constitution was promulgated in 1960. Ibid., 178–181; U.S. Dept of the Army, Pamphlet 550–40, U.S. Army Area Handbook for Vietnam (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1962), 235. |
| 57. | Gettlemen, ed., op. cit., 88–89. |
| 58. | American Consulate General, Saigon, Despatch 34, February 12, 1949. |
| 59. | Op. cit., 90–91. |
| 60. | Vo Nguyen Giap, People's War, People's Army (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961), 35, also 67–108; Cf., "Let Us Step Up The Theory-Formulating Task of The Party," Hoc Tap (No. 9, September 1966) in Joint Publications Research Service, "Translations from Hoc Tap" (No. 38,660, November 16, 1966), 2. |
| 61. | Ibid. |
| 62. | Fall, Ho on Revolution, op. cit., 206 ff. |
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