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| 59. | Fall, The Two Viet Nams, 154; Ellen Hammer, Vietnam Yesterday and Today, 149–150. |
| 60. | First and Second Interim Reports of the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam; Third Interim Report, and Fourth Interim Report. (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, May, June and December 1955, respectively), passim. Cf. Murti, op. cit., 86–90; and IAC, Viet Minh Violations, op. cit. |
| 61. | P. J. Honey, ed., North Vietnam Today, op. cit., 8–9; Fall, Le Viet Minh, op. cit.; Hoang, op. cit., 166. Bernard B. Fall, Viet-Nam Witness (New York: Praeger, 1966), 96–98. |
| 62. | U.S. Dept. of State, "Information on Refugees in Vietnam," op. cit. |
| 63. | Robert Scigliano, South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964), 102–103; Senator John F. Kennedy, "America's Stake in Vietnam," in America's Stake in Vietnam, op. cit., 11–12; United States Operations Mission to Vietnam, Activity Report (June 30, 1954 through June 30, 1956) (Saigon: 1956); NIS 43D, op. cit., 35; Devillers, "Ngo Dinh Diem..." op. cit., 214. |
| 64. | Anita Lauve, The Origins and Operations of the International Control Commission in Laos and Vietnam (U) (Santa Monica: Rand Corporation, RM-2967-ARPA, April, 1962) (S), 198–203; Anita Lauve Nutt, Troika on Trial, op. cit., 690–691; the incident is referred to in the ICC's Fourth Interim Report, op. cit., 24–25. CIA, Current Intelligence Weekly Review, 21 July 1955. |
| 65. | USOM, Activity Report 1954–1956, op. cit.; Lindholm, ed., Viet-Nam, op. cit., 90, 100, 184, 195, 337, 360. |
| 66. | William A. Nighswonger, Rural Pacification in Vietnam (New York: Praeger, 1966), 34–37; Scigliano, op. cit., 53–55, 169; Shaplen, The Lost Revolution, op. cit., 136-137; Report of the Saigon Military Mission, FY 1955, (Lansdale Report of 1955), op. cit., 24-25. |
| 67. | Lindholm, ed., Viet-Nam, op. cit., 52–53; Scigliano, op. cit., 181–183. |
| 68. | In part, this explains the political power of the Buddhists acquired in 1963—an amorphous religion, so essentially apolitical and unwieldy that it was among the few Vietnamese institutions ignored by the communists, became the focus of Viet nationalism and a prime contributor to Diem's undoing. Cf., Roger Hilsman, To Move a Nation (New York: Doubleday, 1967), 468–472. Bernard Fall's essay on the "Sears of Division" quotes a Vietnamese saying that success in life hinged on "3 D's:—Diem (family connections); Dao (religion); and Dia-phuong (province of origin). Fall, Viet-Nam Witness (New York: Praeger, 1966), 206–210. |
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