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| 14. | Scigliano, op. cit., 62–68 . Kahin and Lewis, op. cit., 93, 94. |
| 15. | The summary account of Diem's life draws principally on Fall, The Two Viet-Nams, op. cit., 234 ff.; Warner, op. cit., 84 ff.; Shaplen, The Lost Revolution, 100 ff.; Scigliano, op. cit., 13 ff. |
| 16. | E.g. Shaplen, op. cit., 101; or Wesley R. Fishel, "Vietnam's Democratic One-Man Rule," in Gettlemen, ed., op. cit., 197–198. |
| 17. | Shaplen, loc. cit.; Scigliano, op. cit., 17. |
| 18. | E.g. Robert Sheer, op. cit., 240–241. |
| 19. | Diem's acquaintances in the U.S. included Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Senator John F. Kennedy, and Senator Mike Mansfield, as well as Cardinal Spellman. |
| 20. | U.S. Dept. of State, Memorandum of Conversation among Senator Mansfield, Assistant Secretary W. S. Robertson, et al, 7 December 1954. |
| 21. | U.S. Dept. of State, Memorandum from Ambassador Heath to Asst. Secy. Robertson, 17 December 1954. |
| 22. | General J. Lawton Collins, Memorandum to the Secretary of State, dated 20 January 1955, "Report on Vietnam for the National Security Council," 9. |
| 23. | U.S. Dept of State, telegram, Saigon 4399, April 7, 1955. |
| 24. | U.S. Dept of State, telegram, Saigon 4663, April 19, 1955. |
| 25. | U.S. Dept of State, Memo for Asst. SecState Robertson, 30 April 1955, "Report on Collins Visit and Viet-Nam Situation," which foresaw trouble on the Hill if Diem were forced out.
U.S. Congress, Congressional Record, Vol. 101 (Washington: GPO, May 2, 1955), 5290. |
| 26. | U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Memorandum for the Secretary of Defense, dated 9 May 1955, subject: "Indochina (Vietnam)." |
| 27. | U.S. Dept of State, telegram, SECTO 50 from Manila, 1 March 1955, reports that Secretary Dulles "told Diem that U.S. Government -- President and himself -- had great stake in him and in Vietnam… if there is failure here, U.S. prestige would be gravely affected"; also Resch. Memo 765, op. cit. |
| 28. | Scigliano, op. cit., 101–105. |
| 29. | Jean Lacouture and Philippe Devillers, La Fin d'Une Guerre (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1960), 306. |
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