Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
DEPARTMENT
OF
STATE
TELEGRAM
DIVISION OF
CENTRAL SERVICES
TELEGRAPH SECTION
| ACTION: INFO S U C A-C-1 A-D EUR-3 FE-3 DC/L-K LA-1 |
NES-516-O This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone. (SECRET) |
Chungking via Army Dated November 23, 1945 Rec'd. 12:25 a.m., 24th |
Secretary of State,
Below is given substance of identical communications addressed by Ho-Chi-Minh to President Truman and to Director General of UNRRA; communications' were given to General Gallagher and forwarded to Embassy through US Army channels (Embassy's 1952, Nov 9 to Dept repeated to Paris): I wish to invite attention of your Excellency for strictly humanitarian reasons to the following matter. Two million Vietnamese died of starvation during winter of 1944 and spring 1945 because of starvation policy of French who seized and stored until it rotted all available rice (Sent Dept; repeated Paris). Three-fourths of cultivated land was flooded in summer 1945, which was followed by a severe drouth; of normal harvest five-sixths was lost. The presence of Chinese occupational army
increases
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SECRET
C-87
