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11. FRENCH SURVEY OF 1910: Buttinger, I, 450, n. 53.

12. “MORE ILLITERATE THAN THEIR FATHERS”: Jules Harmard, Domination et colonisation, Paris, 1910, 264, q. Buttinger, Smaller Dragon, 425.

13. “REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CONQUERED RACE”: q. Manning, Stage, 109, from Milton Osborne, French Presence in Cochin China and Cambodia, 1859–1905, Ithaca, 1969, 119.

14. OSS AND HO CHI MINH: Smith, 332–4. AMERICA “OPPOSED COLONIALISM”: ibid, OSS DISTRICT CHIEF: Col. Paul Halliwell, q. Shaplen, 33.

15. DECISIONS AT POTSDAM: Leahy, 286, 338, 413; also, CCS to St. Didier, 19 July 45, Vigneras, 398.

16. ACCORDING TO ADMIRAL KING: Thorne, 631.

17. TRUMAN, “NO OPPOSITION” TO RETURN OF THE FRENCH: De Gaulle, III, 910. DE GAULLE TO PRESS CONFERENCE: q. Drachman, 90.

18. BRAZZAVILLE DECLARATION: q. Marshall, 107; see also Smith, 324.

19. “WE WILL KEEP ON FIGHTING”: q. Shaplen, 30.

20. MESSAGE IN NAME OF BAO DAI: q. Hammer, 102.

21. “FACILITATE RECOVERY … BY THE FRENCH”: q. Cooper, 39.

22. FRENCH RETURN ON AMERICAN SHIPS: Dunn; also Hammer, 113; Isaacs, 151–7; “TO EMPLOY AMERICAN FLAG VESSELS”: PP(HR), Bk I, Part I, A, p. A-24, q. Patti, 380.

23. BRITISH USED JAPANESE UNITS: Isaacs, 151; FOOTNOTE QUOTING MOUNT-BATTEN: q. Dunn from one of the following: Lord Mountbatten’s Report to Combined Chiefs of Staff, 1945–45 (London, HMSO, 1951), Post Surrender Tasks, Section E of the above (London, HMSO, 1969); GREAT BRITAIN: Documents Relating to British Involvement in the Indo-China Conflict, 1945–65, Command 2834 (London, HMSO, 1965).

24. GENERAL GRACY’S REMARKS: q. Buttinger, I, 327.

25. WEARING AMERICAN UNIFORMS: Cooper, 41; Isaacs, 161; Smith, 344.

26. “STABLE, STRONG AND FRIENDLY”: PP (Senate), 13. OSS TO OBSERVE “PUNITIVE MISSIONS”: q. Smith, 347.

27. EIGHT APPEALS BY HO TO U.S. UNANSWERED: FRUS, 1946, VIII, 27; also PP, I, 17.

28. ARTHUR HALE REPORT: Gallagher Papers, PP (Senate), Appendix I, 31–6.

29. Christian Science Monitor; by Gordon Walker, 2 Mar 46. state dept., “SERIOUSLY DETERIORATING”: 28 Nov 45, FRUS, 1945, VI, 1388, n. 37.

30. CHARLES YOST REPORT: 13 Dec 45, ibid.; see also Fifield, 69–70.

31. MARSHALL, “DANGEROUSLY OUTMODED”: drafted by the French Desk for Embassy in Paris, PP, I, 31–2. ACHESON TO MOFFAT: ibid., 20.

32. MOFFAT, “FIFTY YEARS FROM NOW”: PP (Senate), 13.

33. AMERICAN CONSUL IN SAIGON, “NO SETTLEMENT”: Charles S. Reed to Sec. of State, 22 Dec 46, FRUS, 1946, VIII, 78–9. LECLERC, “IT WOULD TAKE 500,000”: q. Halberstam, 84, from Paul Mus orally.

34. TRUMAN AND ACHESON ASSURED THE PUBLIC: FRUS, 1945, VI, 313; Thome, 632.

35. FRENCH DESK DIRECTIVE ON INDOCHINA: Feb 1947, PP, I, 31.

2. Self-Hypnosis

1. NSC SEA IS “TARGET”: June, 49, PP, I, 82. “KEY AREA”: ibid., 83.

2. BAO DAI TO PHAN QUANG DAN: PP, I, 71–2. Dan, “WITHOUT IDEOLOGY”: ibid.

3. ROBERT BLUM, “GIVES LITTLE PROMISE”: Shaplen, 87; PP, I, 73.

4. “VITAL TO THE … FREE WORLD”: 24 May 51, q. Gelb, 44.

5. TRUMAN, “MONSTROUS CONSPIRACY”: radio report to the American people, 11 Apr 51, PP, I, 588.

6. NSC “ANTICIPATED” SEIZURE: 27 Feb 50, PP, I, 83. STATE DEPT., NO TRACES OF KREMLIN: ibid., 34.

7. TRUMAN, SPECIAL MESSAGE TO CONGRESS: 24 May 51, PP, I, 589. ACHESON, “REMOVE ANY ILLUSIONS”: q. Gelb, 42.

8. RUSK, “NEW COLONIALISM”: q. Cohen, 75. “TOOL OF THE POLITBURO”: testimony to Senate FRC, 8 June 1950, q. Cohen, 50.

9. NYT EDITORIAL, “IT SHOULD NOW BE CLEAR”: 11 June 52. NSC SEES JAPAN SUCCUMBING: PP, I, 84.

10. OHLY MEMORANDUM: Acheson, 674.

11. U.S. NAVAL AND AIR ACTION IN EVENT OF CHINESE ENTRY: NSC 124, PP, I, 88.

12. WALTER ROBERTSON, “NO REGIME AS MALEVOLENT”: q. Hoopes, 147.

13. KNOWLAND, “SOVIET CONQUEST”: ibid., 203.

14. JOHNSON, “GREAT BEAST”: q. Ball, 404. DULLES, “PASSION TO CONTROL EVENTS”: Hoopes, 140.

15. DULLES, “PACIFIC FRONT … WIDE OPEN”: in Senate, 21 Sept 49, q. Hoopes, 78.

16. “PART OF A SINGLE PATTERN”: ibid., 115.

17. DULLES, “THESE TWO GENTLEMEN”: ibid., 78.

18. AUTHOR OF REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM: Halle, 270. Text in National Party Platforms, compiled