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NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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FOOTNOTES
| 1. | Department of State Circular to certain American diplomatic and consular officers, January 23, 1946. The association of the Netherlands East Indies with French Indochina could not have been lost on the French. |
| 2. | Department of State, Office of Far Eastern Affairs, Memo for Mr. Acheson from J.C.V., January 8, 1947. |
| 3. | Department of State outgoing telegram to AMEMB Paris 431, February 3, 1947 (SECRET). |
| 4. | Department of State outgoing telegram to AMEMB Paris 145, January 17, 1949 (SECRET). |
| 5. | Joseph Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled (New York: Praeger, 1967, 2 vols), II, pp. 706–707. |
| 6. | Bernard B. Fall, ed., Ho Chi Minh on Revolution (New York: Praeger, 1967), pp. 197–198. |
| 7. | Memorandum for the President from the Secretary of State, February 2, 1950. |
| 8. | Department of State Bulletin, May 22, 1950. |
| 9. | NS 48/1, Report by the Executive Secretary, December 23, 1949, p. 3 (TOP SECRET). |
| 10. | Cf. McCarran bill, introduced February 25, 1949, to provide $1.5 billion loan to Nationalist China, subsequent Bridges call for investigation of U.S.–China policy. |
| 11. | NSC 48/1, p. 13. |
| 12. | NSC 64, Report by the Department of State, February 7, 1950, p. 3 (TOP SECRET). |
| 13. | The French Assembly ratified the bill which in effect established the Associated States on January 29, 1950. The reasons for recognition advanced by the Secretary of State to the President are encouragement to national aspirations under non-communist leadership; establishment of stable non-communist governments in areas adjacent to Communist China; support to France; demonstration of displeasure with communist tactics. Department of State, Memorandum for the President from the Secretary, subject "U.S. Recognition of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia," February 2, 1950. |
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