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NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011
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| 26. | Stettinius notes Roosevelt's refusal to get "mixed up in any military effort" in Indochina -- with the rejoinder that action at this time was premature. Extract from Stettinius diary, 1 January 1945 | 45 |
| 27. | Stettinius informs Halifax that Roosevelt did not agree with sending French agents to Indochina. Memorandum of Conversation, Stettinius-Halifax, 2 January 1945 | 46 |
| 28. | Secretary of War Stimson replies to State Department query whether U.S. actions in Indochina were consistent with Roosevelt's instructions. Stimson letter to Stettinius, 2 January 1945 | 47 |
| 29. | Harriman reviews Soviet attitudes ("hostility to colonial exploitation and domination of native peoples by foreign imperialism") and assesses intentions in Russian relations ("not to consent cheerfully to any further establishment of Western military and naval power in that area") regarding French colonialism and the future of Indochina. Harriman (Moscow) 118 to Stettinius, 13 January 1945 | 48 |
| 30. | Patrick J. Hurley reports on Indochina situation; General Wedemeyer has maintained a "non-committal policy vis-a-vis Indochina." Hurley 177 to Stettinius, 6 February 1945 | 58 |
| 31. | Roosevelt discusses Indochina trusteeship with Stalin at Yalta. Extract of Roosevelt-Stalin Yalta Conversations, 8 February 1945 | 59 |
| 32. | Hurley forwards a "note" from the French Provisional Government concerning de Gaulle's position on Indochina. Hurley despatch 111 to Stettinius, 31 January 1945 (State Department 14 February 1945) | 60 |
| 33. | Caffrey reports General de Gaulle's distress over the lack of U.S. support to French resistance in Indochina. "What are you driving at?…We do not want to become Communist.…I hope that you do not push us into it." Caffrey 1196 to Stettinius, 13 March 1945 | 65 |
| 34. | Stettinius seeks Roosevelt's approval of a proposed statement to the effect that the U.S. "Will do all it can to support resistance groups." Memorandum by Stettinius for Roosevelt, 16 March 1945 | 66 |
| 35. | Roosevelt declines to issue the statement proposed by Stettinius (on U.S. support of resistance groups) as "inadvisable." Memorandum by Leahy to Hull, 17 March 1945 | 68 |
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