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| 30. | Shaplen, 106. Diem considered himself a Catholic of the Spanish vice French tradition: fiercely militant, rather than intellectual and tolerant in the Gallic mode. Fall, Two Viet-Nams, 236–238. Cf., Warner, op. cit., 90. |
| 31. | Ibid., 237. |
| 32. | Scigliano, op. cit., 58. U.S. Dept of State, Memorandum for the Secretary of State, dated 23 April 1955, "Report on Vietnamese Political Situation," and Memorandum for Assistant Secretary of State Robertson, 30 April 1955, "Report on Collins Visit and Viet-Nam Situation." |
| 33. | Scigliano, op. cit., 60; David Halberstam, The Making of a Quagmire (New York: Random House, 1964), 55; Fall, Two Viet-Nams, 252–253· |
| 34. | Scigliano, op. cit., 56–57. |
| 35. | Ibid., 58, 75–76, 110–111; Warner, op. cit., 32, 307–308; Fall, Two Viet-Nams, 246–252. |
| 36. | Anthony Trawick Bouscaren, The Last of the Mandarins: Diem of Vietnam (Pittsburgh: Duquesne U. Press, 1965), 168. |
| 37. | Ibid., 168, 169. |
| 38. | Ibid., 79–82. |
| 39. | Ibid., 165–171. |
| 40. | Shaplen, op. cit., 131. |
| 41. | Report of the Saigon Military Mission (SMM), op. cit. |
| 42. | Warner, op. cit., 116–117, 214, 224; Fall, Two Viet-Nams, 250; Scigliano, op. cit., 75–80; Shaplen, op. cit., 128–132 |
| 43. | Scigliano, loc. cit. |
| 44. | Ibid., 77. |
| 45. | Report of the Saigon Military Mission, op. cit.; Scigliano, op. cit., 20–21. |
| 46. | U.S. Dept of State, telegrams: to Saigon 4756 of 27 April 1955; to Saigon 4757 of 27 April 1955; to Saigon ---- of 28 April 1955 (draft); to Saigon 5600 of 1 May 1955.
Memorandum from K. T. Young, Jr., to Asst Secy Robertson, 30 April 1955, "Report on Collins Visit and Viet-Nam Situation"; Shaplen, op. cit., 122–125; Report of the SMM, op. cit. |
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