Note 1-9 — CHAPTER 1 Background to Military Assistance The Geographic Setting—The People—Vietnam’s Recent History—Post-Geneva South Vietnam—The American Response
Reading edition
Letter, SecState to SecDef, 18Aug54 as quoted in “U.S. Training of the Vietnamese National Army 1954–1959,” Pentagon Papers, bk. 2, sec. IV.A.4, p. 3.