1 Donald Lancaster,
The Emancipation of French Indochina
(New York: Octagon Press, 1974) 6.
2 Lancaster, 17.
3 Joseph R. Starobin,
Eyewitness in Indo-China
(New York: Greenwood Press, 1954) 28.
4 Lancaster, 29.
5 Lancaster, 33.
6 Lancaster, 33.
7 Lancaster, 48.
8 Lancaster, 55.
9 Lancaster, 67.
10 Lancaster, 73.
11 Lancaster, 74.
12 Lancaster, 77.
13 Starobin, 28.
14 Lancaster, 83.
15 Lancaster, 92.
16 Bernard B. Fall,
Street Without Joy
(Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1964) 24.
17 Lancaster, 102.
18 Fall, 22.
19 Lancaster, 107
20 Lancaster, 117.
21 Lancaster, 115
22 Lancaster, 116
23 Lancaster, 121
24 James R. Arnold,
The First Domino
(New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991) 31.
25 Fall, 26. Fall is quoting Truong Chinh, the secretary general of the Indochinese Communist Party at the time, who published a short book on the meeting called
La revolution d’ao—t,
(Hanoi 1946).
26 Arnold, 32.
27 Lancaster, 111.
28 Joint Statement by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, 14 August 1941, in
Foreign Relations of the United States, Diplomatic Papers 1941
, Vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1958) 368.
29 Arnold, 21.
30 Arnold, 22.
31 Fall, 26.
32 Arnold, 28.
33 Arnold, 32.
34 Rene J. Defourneaux, “A Secret Encounter With Ho Chi Minh,”
Look
, Vol. 30, No. 16 (9 August 1966), 32, (quoted in Arnold, 31).
35 Arnold, 31.
36 Arnold, 20.
37 U.S. Department of Defense, “Recent Developments in Relation to Indochina,” 2 November 1944, in
United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967
, Vol. 7 Part VB (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1971), 39.
38 Lancaster, 78.
39 Arnold, 29.
40 Lancaster, 125.
41 Arnold, 24.
42 Fall, 24-25.
43 Lancaster, 111.
44 Arnold, 21-22.
45 Lancaster, 115.
46 Lancaster, 126.
47 Arnold, 19-20.
48 Roosevelt to Stettinius, 24 January 1944, in
United States-Vietnam Relations
, Vol. 7, Part VB, 30.
49 Quoted in Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.
Roosevelt and the Russians: The Yalta Conference
(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1949) 237.
50 Arnold, 21. Also discussed in footnote in Lancaster, 125.
51 Fall, 24.
52 Arnold, 22.
53 Arnold, 30.
54 Arnold, 30, 34.
55 Peter Scholl-Latour,
Death in the Ricefields: An Eyewitness Account of Vietnam’s Three Wars, 1945-1979
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1979) 24.