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NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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FOOTNOTES
| 1. | McClintock from Saigon tel. No. 502, May 4, 1954 (SECRET). |
| 2. | Dulles to Paris tel. No. 4398, June 4, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 3. | The treaties are published in U.S. VerbMin/3 (May 12), pp. 99-101. |
| 4. | See the DRV's Declaration of Independence, in Ho Chi Minh, Selected Works (Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1961), III, 20. |
| 5. | Memorandum from Heath to Dulles and Smith: "The Indochina Phase of the Conference," May 1, 1954 (SECRET). |
| 6. | Lacouture and Devillers, p. 122. |
| 7. | The U.S. objection was based on long-standing opposition to any move that would accord China the status of a major power equivalent to the fifth member of a "Big Five." See, e.g., Dulles to American Embassy – Canberra tel. No. 158, April 1, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 8. | Lacouture and. Devillers, pp. 122–23. |
| 9. | G. McMurtrie Godley (First Secretary) from Paris tel. No. 2757, April 29, 1954 (UNC). |
| 10. | Lacouture and Devillers, p. 123, n. 3 |
| 11. | Ibid., pp. 123–24. |
| 12. | Ibid., p. 187. |
| 13. | U.S. VerbMin/IC Restricted 6, p. 7 (CONFIDENTIAL). |
| 14. | Smith from Geneva tel. SECTO 217, May 15, 1954 (SECRET). |
| 15. | Lacouture and Devillers, p. 234. |
| 16. | French insistence on the 18th parallel originated in the recommendation of General Navarre, who was asked several questions by the French delegation at Geneva regarding the likely impact of the then-existing military situation on the French negotiatory position. Navarre's responses were sent April 21. On the demarcation line, Navarre said that the 18th parallel would leave "us" the ancient political capitol of Hue and Tourane (Da Nang), and permit the retention of militarily valuable terrain. See General Ely's Memoires: l'Indochina dans la Tourmente (Paris: Plan, 1964), p. 112, and Lacouture and Devillers, p. 126. |
| 17. | Ibid., pp. 235–36. |
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