United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense/I. C. Notes

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FOOTNOTES

1.	Bernard B. Fall, "Ho Chi Minh: Like It Or Not," Esquire, November, 1967, p. 121.
2.	Hoang Van Chi, From Colonialism to Communism, Frederick A. Praeger (New York: 1965), pp. 37–38.
3.	Ellen J. Hammer, The Struggle for Indochina 1940–1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 1965, p. 76.
4.	Bernard B. Fall, Ho Chi Min: On Revolution, Frederick A. Praeger, New Yort: 1967, p. 27. This is a collection of selected writings by Ho Chi Minh, 1920–1966. Hereafter reference will be made to this volume as Ho Chi Minh on Revolution.
5.	Hammer, op. cit., p. 76.
6.	Hoang Van Chi, op. cit., p. 40.
7.	Ibid., p. 42.
8.	Ibid., p. 19–19.
9.	U.S. Dept of State, Political Alignments of Vietnamese Nationalists, (OIR Report No. 3708, 1949), p. 30.
10.	Ibid., p. 32.
11.	Ibid., p. 34.
12.	Fall, op. cit., p. 204.
13.	Ibid., p. 205.
14.	Fall, ed., Ho On Revolution, p. 137.
15.	Hammer, op. cit., pp. 98–105; Fall, Two Viet-Nams (New York: Praeger, 1964), pp. 83–103; Buttinger, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled (New York: Praeger, 1967), I, pp. 292–300, 344–351.
16.	Fall, ed., Ho On Revolution, p. 141; CIA, Biographic Handbook, CIA/CR BH 6.6, entry for Ho dated 21 January 1965.
17.	Ibid.; George A. Carver, Jr., "The Faceless Viet Cong," Foreign Affairs (Vol 44, No. 3, April, 1966), pp. 349–351.
18.	Fall, ed., Ho On Revolution, 150 ff. (by dates).
19.	Fall, Two Viet-Nams, pp. 101–103; Buttinger, op. cit., I, pp. 266–269; Central Intelligence Agency, "Probable Developments in North Vietnam to July 1956," (NIE 63.1-55, 19 July 1955), p. 4.
20.	Ibid.; Robert Shaplen, The Lost Revolution (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), XIV.
21.	Ibid., p. 52; Shaplen also quotes Ho as saying in 1946 "To achieve a communist society, big industrial and agricultural production is necessary...I do not know when that will be realized in Vietnam where production is low. We are not yet in a position to meet the conditions." Ibid., pp. 48–49. Buttinger, op. cit., I, pp. 266–269, 637 Cf., Fall, Two Viet-Nams, op. cit., p. 101.
22.	Shaplen, op. cit., p. 48; Hammer, op. cit., p. 173.
23.	Shaplen, op. cit., p. 53.
24.	E. g., Isaacs in Gettleman, ed., op. cit.; Fall, Two Viet-Nams, op. cit., pp. 81–82; Shaplen, pp. 28–35, 42–44, 47; CIA, Biographic Handbook, op. cit.
25.	U.S. Dept of State telegram from Paris, 6131, to Acheson, September 11, 1945.
26.	U.S. Dept of State telegram to Saigon, Acheson 305, December 5, 1945.
27.	U.S. Dept of State telegram, Marshall 431 to Paris, February 3, 1947.
28.	U.S. Dept of State telegram to Hanoi 36, May 20, 1949.
29.	Fall, ed., Ho on Revolution, p. 198
30.	Ibid., pp. 199–200
31.	Carver, op. cit., p. 352; CIA, Biographic Handbook, op. cit.
32.	U.S. Dept of State, Far Eastern Notes (No. 8, May 7, 1954), p. 6; Shaplen, op. cit., p. 52.
33.	[Intelligence Files, OSD], Buttinger, op. cit., II, p. 699.
34.	Gettleman, ed., op. cit., p. 55.
35.	Ibid., p. 75; Hammer, op. cit., p. 202.
36.	Buttinger, op. cit., p. 363; Hammer, op. cit., pp. 201–202.
37.	Gettleman, op. cit., p. 55.
38.	Shaplen, op. cit., p. 53; Hammer, op. cit., p. 250.
39.	Shaplen, op. cit., p. 52.
40.	Hammer, op. cit., pp. 249–250.
41.	Ibid.
42.	Department of State Bulletin (February 13, 1950), p. 244.
43.	Hammer, op. cit., p. 251.