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17, US Department of State, Press Conference: Secretary Dulles, May 11,
1954, Department if State Bulletin, May 17, 1954, p, 865.
18. Public Papers, Dwight D. Eisenhower. 1954, PresiJential News Cciference,
May 12, ,954, p. 473,
19. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mandate for Change (New York: Douuleaay, 1963),
p. 372,
20. Emmet John Hughes, The Ordeal of Power (New York. Dell, 1962), p. 182.
21, Department of StaLe, "The U.S. in Southeast Asia," Department of State
Bulletin, June 10 1956, pp. 210-215.
22, ibid.
23. MacDonald, p. 5; and US-Vietnam Relations. 1945-1967, Prepared by the
Department of Defense, Printed for the Use of the Houise Committee on
the Armed Services (Washington, D.C." US Government Printing Office,
1971), hereafter DOD US/VN Relations, Book 1 of 12, II.. A.1.., "The Bao
Dai Solution," pp. A-5 to A-26. The development which brougnt about
the US support of a government headed by Baa Dai were, (1) the massing
of PRC forces along Vietnam's northern borders, (2) the diplomatic
recognition of Ho Chi Minh's government by the PRC and USSR, (3) the
agreement by the PRC to provide aid to Ho Chi Minh's government,
(4) approval by the French of limited autonomy for a Vietnamese government
headed by the former emperor, Bao Dai, and (5) ths Bao Oai solution
appeared to be the only opportunity for an eventu"l stable non-communis÷
government,
24. Major General George S. Eckhardt, Command and Cortvol: 1950-1969,
Department of the Army, Vietnam Studies Series (Washington, D.C,"
U.S. Government Printing Oftice, 1974), p. 7.
23. MacDonald, p. 10,
26, ickhardt, pp. 8-9.
27. Quoted in MacDonald, p. 17.
28. A leading zdviser who thought Diem should go was for,,,er Army Chief of
Staff, General J. Lawton Collins, who was given to-! rank of Ambassador
and sent by Eisenhtower as his personal representat-ie to Saigon in late
1954 to expedite a c-ash program to improve the South Vietnamese armed
forces. Collins considered that Premier Diem was unable to pull the
divisive elements of his society together and. therefore, should nave
been removed.
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