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FOOTNOTES

1.	U.S. Department of State, Documentary History of United States Policy Toward Indochina, 1940–1953 (Historical Office, Research Project No. 354, April, 1954) TS; see also U.S. Congress, House, Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1944 (House Document No. 303, 1965), III, 769–784; Ruth B. Russell, A History of the United Nations Charter (Washington: Brooks Institution, 1958), 173–174.
2.	Ibid. Included in the Documentary History..., op. cit., is a Memorandum of Conversation between Roosevelt and Stalin, Teheran, November 28, 1943 (SECRET). The President is said to have then considered that a twenty-to thirty-year period would be necessary before the Indochinese peoples would be ready for independence.
3.	Speech of Foreign Minister Pineau, New York Times, March 5, 1956.
4.	Russell, op. cit., 79.
5.	Ibid., 174, quoting Cordell Hull, Memoirs, II, 1957; U.S. Department of State, Documentary History..., op. cit., 574.
6.	Ernest J. King and Walter M. Whitehill, Fleet Admiral King: A Naval Record (1952), 569; quoted in Russell, op. cit., A-10.
7.	John Ehrman, Grand Strategy: August 1943–September 1944, Vol. V. (1956), 442; quoted in Russell, op. cit., 574.
8.	U.S. Department of State, Documentary History..., op. cit., A-16.
9.	Ibid., A-16.
10.	Extract from Stettinius Diary; quoted in U.S. State Department Study, Documentary History..., op. cit., A-17.
11.	William D. Leahy, I Was There (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950), 244, 269, 286.
12.	Russell, op. cit., 575.
13.	In March 1945, the President remarked to Gen. Wedemeyer, then commanding officer for U.S. forces in China, "that he must watch carefully to prevent British and French political activities in the area and that he should give only such support to the British and French as would be required in direct operations against the Japanese." U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers: The Conference of Berlin (the Potsdam Conference), 1945, I, 917.