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

​I. C. 2.
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. |