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19. DULLES TRIES TO GET KREMLIN PROMISE: Hoopes, 172.

20. GENERAL STAFF, “RE-EVALUATION” IN RELATION TO COST: PP, I, 89.

21. BARRINGTON: q. Barrington, 142–3.

22. ADMIRAL DAVIS, “SHOULD BE AVOIDED”: PP, I, 89.

23. PENTAGON CHIEFS’ ADVICE, CHINA THE ENEMY: q. Cohen, 174.

24. EISENHOWER’S THREE CONDITIONS: PP, I, 94; Mandate, 345.

25. “WILL PROBABLY DETERIORATE”: 4 June 53, PP, I, 391–2.

26. “THE FRENCH BLACKMAILED US”: Acheson interview with Professor Gaddis Smith, NYT Book Review, 12 Oct 69.

27. “THE FREEDOM WE CHERISH”: q. Halle, 286–7.

28. TRAPNELL REPORT: PP, I, 487–9.

29. “A LACK OF ENTHUSIASM”: 3 Feb 54, q. Gelb, 52.

30. “POPULATION SUPPORTED THE ENEMY”: Eisenhower, Mandate, 372–3.

31. U.S. PAYING 80 PERCENT: Hammer, 313, n. 20a.

32. JUSTICE DOUGLAS: North from Malaya, 10, 208.

33. MANSFIELD REPORT: U.S. Congress, Senate FRC, 83rd Congress, 1st Session: see under U.S. Congress, Senate.

34. DULLES’ FEAR OF MC CARTHY: Hoopes, 160.

35. NEW LOOK STRATEGY OF CABINET: Eisenhower, Mandate, 451; Hoopes, chap. 13. HUMPHREY COMMENT: q. ibid., 196.

36. DULLES, “PHONY PEACE CAMPAIGN”: Hoopes, 173.

37. RADFORD POLICY PAPER FOR GENEVA: PP, I, 448–51.

38. DULLES LEFT THE IMPRESSION: Hoopes, 212. Nixon, “if to avoid”: 16 Apr 54, q. Eisenhower, Mandate, 353, n. 4.

39. EISENHOWER, “OUR MAIN TASK”: Mandate, 168.

40. CHINESE SUPPLY 4000 TONS A MONTH: Cooper, 59.

41. ELY MISSION AND OPERATION VULTURE: Roberts, in Raskin and Fall, 57–66; PP, I, 97–106. PROPOSED USE OF ATOMIC BOMBS: FRUS, 1952–54, XIII, 1271. FOOTNOTE, PROVOKING CHINESE RESPONSE: Chalmers Roberts in Washington Post, 24 Oct 71, q. Gelb, 57. MACARTHUR COMMENT: FRUS, op. cit., to Sec. of State 7 Apr 54, 1270–2.

42. DULLES MEETING WITH CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS: Roberts, op. cit.; Hoopes, 210–11.

43. FRENCH CABINET ASKS INTERVENTION: PP, I, 100–04; Roberts; Hoopes, 207–08. EISENHOWER, “NO INVOLVEMENT”: 10 Mar 54, q. Gurtov, 78.

44. GAVIN REPORT: Ridgway, Soldier, 276; also Gavin in Senate FRC Hearings in 1966.

45. EISENHOWER REJECTS UNILATERAL INTERVENTION: Mandate, 373; PP, I, 129.

46. SPECIAL COMMITTEE’S REPORT: 5 Apr 54, PP, I, 472–6.

47. DULLES ON FALL OF DIEN BIEN PHU: 11 May 54, PP, I, 106; also NYT, 24 June 54.

48. MENDES-FRANCE, “DOES MUCH LESS”: q. Hoopes from Le Monde, 12 Feb 54. CEASE-FIRE IN THIRTY DAYS: Ambassador Dillon to Sec. of State, 6 July 54, PP (HR), Bk IX, 612. CONSCRIPTION: ibid.

49. DULLES, “DELIBERATE THREAT”: 11 June 54, q. Hoopes, 230.

50. CHOU EN-LAI’S ADVICE: as told by Chou to Harrison Salisbury, Salisbury to author, 17 Feb 83.

3. Creating the Client

1. FRENCH CASUALTIES: Eisenhower, Mandate, 337.

2. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “A WAR TO STAY OUT OF”: 5 May 54, and other editorials, May 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 19, 22, 1954. FITZPATRICK CARTOON: ibid., wanted, 8 June 54.

3. REISCHAUER, “AN EXTREMELY INEFFECTIVE”: 178–9; 251–7.

4. DULLES, “SO UNITED, SO STRONG”: q. Hoopes, 242.

5. ADMIRAL DAVIS, “NO BETTER PREPARED”: PP, I, 212.

6. DIEM’S CAREER: Mansfield report to Senate FRC, 15 Oct 54, 83rd Congress, 2nd Session; see also Scheer.

7. JUSTICE DOUGLAS INTRODUCES DIEM: Scheer and Hinckle, “The Viet-Nam Lobby,” in Raskin and Fall, 69.

8. AMERICANS “DIFFERENT” FROM THE FRENCH: William Bundy to author, 18 Feb 81.

9. JOINT CHIEFS, “ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL”: PP, I, 215.

10. JOINT CHIEFS, “NO ASSURANCE”: PP, I, 218.

11. “CHRIST HAS MOVED SOUTH”: q. Cooper, 130.

12. “VIETNAM PROBABLY WOULD HAVE TO BE WRITTEN OFF”: report of the Lansdale Mission, PP, I, 577.

13. FAURE, “NOT ONLY INCAPABLE BUT MAD”: PP, I, 241.

14. MANSFIELD REPORT: U.S. Congress, Senate FRC, 83rd Congress, 2nd Session.

15. EISENHOWER LETTER TO DIEM: PP, I, 253.

16. COLLINS’ REPORT: PP, I, 226. RE-AFFIRMED: Collins, 408.

17. LANSDALE MISSION: PP, I, 573–83.

18. FRENCH “DISPOSED TO EXPLORE”: PP, I, 221. SAINTENY, “ONLY POSSIBLE MEANS”: ibid., 222.

19. NYT, “PROVEN INEPT”: C. L. Sulzberger, 18 Apr 55.

20. DULLES, CHANCES “ONE IN TEN”: Collins, 379.

21. EISENHOWER, “LOTS OF DIFFICULTIES”: q.