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| 27. | Department of State Incoming Telegram from Paris 837, February 22, 1950. |
| 28. | NSC 64, The Position of the United States with Respect to Indochina, February 27, 1950, p. 3 (TS). |
| 29. | Department of State letter from Deputy Under Secretary Rusk to Major General James H. Burns, March 7, 1950 (TS). |
| 30. | Memorandum for the President from the Secretary of Defense, approved by SecDef, March 6, 1950 (TS). |
| 31. | By March 6, State and Defense had agreed on a military assistance program for Indochina and Thailand in the amounts of $15 and 10 million respectively. Draft memorandum to the President, "Allocation of Funds to Provide Military Assistance to Thailand and Indochina Under Section 303 of Mutual Defense Assistance Act, March 6, 1950 (TS). |
| 32. | Ninth Report to Congress of ECA, 1951, p. 99. |
| 33. | Quoted in Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense from Secretary of the Navy, "Aid to Indochina," March 28, 1950, p. 2. (TS) |
| 34. | Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "Strategic Assessment of Southeast Asia, 11 April 5, 1950 (TS). |
| 35. | Department of State Outgoing Telegram to AmEmbassy London 20149, May 3, 1950 (TS). |
| 36. | Statement of the President, June 27, 1950. |
| 37. | Memorandum for the Joint Chiefs of Staff from Secretary of Defense, June 6, 1950. Cited in U.S. Policy Toward Vietnam Since 1945 OCMH Draft TS-62-5-3 (TS). |
| 38. | Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Annex 2, October 16, 1950 (S); see also The U.S. Army Role in the Conflict in Vietnam, OCMH Draft TS-64-7-1 (TS), pp. 22–23; the generally pessimistic conclusions of the mission are also presented in Annex 2 to Southeast Asia Policy Committee "Proposed Statement of U.S. Policy in Indochina for NSC Consideration," October 11, 1950 (TS). |
| 39. | OCMH Draft TS-64-7-1, p. 23. |
| 40. | In their comment on this paper, the Joint Secretaries recommended strengthening this restriction by including in it the contingency of "augmented internal communist offensives." Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense from the Joint Secretaries, October 18, 1950 (TS). |
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