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THE BDM CORPORATION<br />

Evert Description Outcome<br />

Recognition ot French High Commissioner for * Cochinchina govthe<br />

Indenendence of Indochina and Emperor Bao Dai<br />

ernment tendthe<br />

State of Viet- exchanged letters in Saigon ered resignation<br />

nam, 14 June 1949 rormalizing Elysee Agreement, to Bao DaiL<br />

"merging in principle<br />

with new<br />

State of Vietnam.<br />

. No actual transfpr<br />

of political<br />

power occurred.<br />

French Ratifica- Following Nationd! Assembly US Recognized<br />

tion of the Inde- approval (29 January 1950), Sta'.e of Vietnam<br />

pcndence of France announced ratification (3 February<br />

Vietnam, of the status for Vietnam 1950).<br />

2 February 1950 described in the Elysee<br />

Agreement. e Details of trans-<br />

1fer of powers<br />

awaited Pau Negotiations<br />

(March-<br />

November, 1950).<br />

<strong>The</strong> Pau Negotia- Bao Dai Dressed the French <strong>The</strong> French eventually<br />

tions, June- in a series of conferences grdnted significant<br />

November 1950 for the transfer of immigration, concessicis to the<br />

Scommunications, ard finance Vietnamese,<br />

services to Vietnam,<br />

Laotians and<br />

Cambodians in each<br />

area, preserving<br />

rights of French "observation<br />

and intervention."<br />

<strong>The</strong>y were<br />

conside.ed a success<br />

by the Vietnamese negotiators.<br />

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