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FOOTNOTES
1. U.S. Congress, Senate Background Information Relating to Southeast Asia and Vietnam (2d Revised Edition) Committee on Foreign Relations, 89th Congress, 2d Session (Washington: GPO, 1966), 36-48. Article 14 of the "Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Viet Nam, July 20, 1954" describes "political and administrative measures," 39-40.
2. Fourth Interim Report of the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam (London: Her Majesty's Stationary Office, 1955)) 6-7. Bernard B. Fall, The Two Viet Nams (New York: Praeger) Revised Edition) 1964), 129.
3. State Department Memorandum, INR/REA/AC: Brieman, 5/7/67.
| Countries Maintaining Relations with DRV. | ||||
| (* Resident in Peking) | ||||
| Ambassador | | Consul | ||
| Albania | Guniea* | North Korea | France | |
| Algeria* | Hungary | Poland | India | |
| Bulgaria | Indonesia | Romania | UK | |
| Communist China | Laos | UAR* | ||
| Cuba | Mali* | USSR | ||
| Czechoslovakia | Mongolia | Yugoslavia | ||
| East Germany | ||||
U.S. Dept. of State, Ltr, Under Secretary Katzenbach to Congressman Evans (March 5) 1968) gives 24 countries, 12 communist. Cf., John Norton Moore, "The Lawfulness of Military Assistance to the Republic of Viet Nam," American Journal of International Law, (Vol. 61, No. 1, January 1967), 2-4; also) Fall, op. cit., 204; and P. J. Honey, Communism in North Vietnam (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1963), 40-41.
4. Hammer, The Struggle for Indochina, op. cit., 179; Bernard Fall, The Viet Minh Regime (New York: Institute of Pacific Relations, 1956), 156 ff. translates the full text.
5. Ibid., 178, 181; DA Pamphlet 550-40, op. cit., 235·
6. Ibid., 179. It should be noted that this announcement followed the peasant revolt in Nghe-An Province in November 1956.
7. A translated text of the 1960 Constitution is in Fall, Two Viet-Nams, op. cit., 409 ff.
8. The National Assembly is elected for 4 years by universal, direct, and secret suffrage on the basis of one deputy for every 50,000 citizens. Article 44 establishes the Assembly as the "only legislative authority." Two meetings per year are prescribed. The Assembly
