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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. |
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