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| 35. | In a note to the French Ambassador, of 10 April 1946, the Department of State confirmed that: "...the Franco-Chinese agreement completes the reversion of all of Indo-china to French control...." and that the Combined Chiefs of Staff "offer no objection" to the arrangement. |
| 36. | U.S. Department of State, Documentary History...., op. cit., B-9, B-6. The Department of State files contain at least 6 communications from Ho in the period September, 1945, to February, 1946, addressed to the U.S. Government in his capacity as "President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Viet-Nam" or as President and Foreign Minister of the "Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam": (1) Letter to President Truman, September 29, 1950 (confidential; file 851G.00/10-1845). (2) Letter to the Secretary of State, October 22, 1945 (from Kunming, desp. 38, October 24, 1945, confidential; file 851G.00/10-2445). (3) Letter to Secretary of State, November 1, 1945 (from Chungking, desp. 890, November 26, 1945, unclassified). (4) Letter to President Truman, undsted (from Chungking, tel. 1948, November 8, 1945, confidential; file 851G.00/11.845). (5) Letter to President Truman, January 18, 1946 (from Chungking, tel. 281, February 13, 1946, confidential; file 740.00119 PW/2-1346). (6) Letter to President Truman, February 16, 1946 (unclassified file 851G.10/2-2046). |
| 37. | Ibid. |
| 38. | U.S. Department of State, telegram to Saigon 305, December 5, 1946. |
| 39. | Ellen J. Hammer, The Struggle for Indochina, 1940–1955, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1966), p. 155. |
| 40. | Ibid., p. 186; Buttinger, op. cit., II, pp. 676–678. |
| 41. | Hammer, op. cit., p. 190. |
| 42. | Ibid. |
| 43. | Ibid., p. 186. |
| 44. | Ibid., p. 191. |
| 45. | Ibid., p. 192. |
| 46. | Ibid., p. 193. |
| 47. | Ibid., pp. 193–194. |
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