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APPENDIX
FRENCH VIETNAMESE NEGOTIATING EVENTS
(1946 - 1954)
Event Description Outcome
Accord of Agreement signed by Ho Chi Minh * Led to French
6 March 1946 with French provided that-, occupation of
"Tonkin Pelta.
* France -ecognized ORV as"
"Free S;ate , forming 0 No significant
part of the Indochina
step taken by
Federation and tho
France toward
French Union."
ORV autonomy.
* DRV welcomed French Army
into Tonkin for 5 years.
0 Further negctiations were
to spell out, details for
DRV independence.
First Dalat French and DRV delegates attempted e Overshadowed by
Conference2, to negotiate differences, but continuing
19 April - were able to enact only minor guerrilla war
11 May 1946 agreements on cultural and in Cochinchina.
educational matters.
* The commission
set up to
arrange an
armistice was
ineffective.
Establishment of French announced formation of 0 Touched off new
Provisional an independent Cochinchina with- wave of gue,-
Government of in the Indochina Federation and rilla war in
q Cochinchina, the French Union, South Vietnam.
1 June 1946
[I Possibility of
divided Vietnam
pressured DRV
in negotiations
with France;
stiffened DRV
attitudes,
SOURCE: Adapted from DoD US-VN Relations, Book 1 of 12, "French-Vietnamese
Negotiations", pp. B-1 through B-6.
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