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| 9. | Paul Ely, Mémoires: L'Indochina dans la Tourmente, (Paris: Plon, 1964), p. 64. |
| 10. | Ibid., pp. 76–77, 82–83; Jean Laconture and Philippe Devillers, La Fin d'une Guerre (Paris, 1960), p. 73; Joseph Laniel, Le Drame Indochinois: De Dien Bien Phu au Pari de Geneve, (Paris: Plon, 1957), p. 88. Laniel writes of a raid by 300 Philippine-based fighter bombers. |
| 11. | Melvin Gurtov, The First Vietnam Crisis (New York; Columbia Univ. Press, 1967), pp. 79–80; 188; 217. |
| 12. | John Foster Dulles, "The Thread of a Red Asia," Department of State Bulletin, April 12, 1954. |
| 13. | Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, 1953–1956 (New York: Doubleday & Co., 1963), pp. 346–7. |
| 14. | Memorandum by Bonbright (EUR) of conversation among Dulles, Ambassador Spender (Australia) and Ambassador Munro (New Zealand), April 4; memorandum by Bonbright of conversation between Dulles and Munro, April 6, 1954, TOP SECRET — as given in Department of State Research Project No. 370, op.cit., p. 16. |
| 15. | Anthony Eden, Full Circle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960), p. 104. |
| 16. | Telegram 3729 from American Embassy, Paris, April 5, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 17. | Telegram 3710 from American Embassy, Paris, April 5, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 18. | The account of the April 3 meeting is taken primarily from Gurtov, op.cit., pp. 94–96. Gurtov's book draws heavily from Chalmers M. Roberts, "The Day We Didn't Go to War," The Reporter, XI, September 14, 1954. Corroborative material is to be found in John Robinson Beal, John Foster Dulles, (New York, 1957), pp. 207–8; Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, pp. 346–7. |
| 19. | Gurtov, op.cit., pp. 96–97. |
| 20. | Deptel 689 to American Embassy, London, August 3, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 21. | Deptel 3482 to American Embassy, Paris, April 5, 1954 (TOP SECRET). |
| 22. | Sherman Adams, Firsthand Report: The Story of the Eisenhower Administration, (New York: Harper and Bros., 1961), p. 121. |
| 23. | Eisenhower, op.cit., p. 347. |
| 24. | Eden, op.cit., pp. 106–7. |
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