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| 14. | The de Gaulle representations were made orally to the U.S. Ambassador. See U.S. Department of State, telegram 1196 from Paris, 13 March, and Documentary History..., A-19, A-20. |
| 15. | Leahy, I Was There, op. cit., pp. 338–339. On the basis of research into the Air Force archives, Bernard Fall wrote in Street Without Joy (Harrisburg, Pa.: Stackpole, 1967, 4th ed.) note, p. 25, that General Claire Chennault, commander of the 14th Air Force, "...Did indeed fly support missions in behalf of the retreating French forces." [After the Japanese take-over in March.] In his The Two Viet-Nams, moreover, Fall cited the memoirs of General Lionel-Max Chassin, commander of the French Far East Air Force, to the effect that the 14th Air Force provided supplies and even fighter support to the French until at least April 26, 1945. (New York: Praeger, 1967, 2nd revised ed.) n. 10, pp. 468–469. In both books, however, Fall presents a strong case for the paucity of U.S. aid to the French in the 1945–1946 period. See also U.S. Department of State, Memorandum of Conversation by Assistant Secretary of State Dunn, 19 March 1945, and telegram to Paris 1576 of 19 April 1945. |
| 16. | Russell, op. cit., 975. |
| 17. | Russell, op. cit., 91; quoting from Cordell Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, 2 Vols., (New York: Macmillan Co., 1948). |
| 18. | Russell, op. cit., pp. 176–177, 573–589. |
| 19. | Ibid., 585, US Dept State, Documentary History..., op. cit., B-2. |
| 20. | U.S. Department of State, Documentary History..., op. cit., B-1. |
| 21. | U.S. Department of State, Documentary History..., op. cit., B-2, p. 2. |
| 22. | Russell, op. cit., p. 1047. |
| 23. | U.S. Department of State, Memorandum by the Director of the Office of European Affairs (Matthews) to the State-War-Navy Coordinating Committee, May 23, 1945. The proposal for a division of responsibility between Chinese Nationalist and British forces was first made by General Marshall, head of the Combined Chiefs of Staff, on July 18, 1945. After some negotiation with Chiang Kai-shek over the precise dividing line, the British accepted the 16th parallel; Truman and Churchill formally agreed to the arrangement on July 24. See Foreign Relations of the United States (Potsdam), op. cit., I, 83 337, 922; and II, 1313, 1319, 1465. |
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