Vietnam
History, Documents, Opinions

Publisher:  Mentor Book, New York, USA
Year Published:  1970
Pages:  624pp   Resource Type:  Book

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Table of Contents

Preface and Introduction

Part I: Background to Revolution
1. Vietnam: The Historical Background
2. Edict of the Emperor Minh-Mang
3. Letter of Nguyen Ai Quoc to the American Secretary of State
4. Revendications du Peuple Annamite
5. The Path to Leninism
6. Ho Chi Minh on the Condition of the Peasants
7. Founding of the Communist Party of Indochina

Part II: War and Independence
8. Independence for Vietnam?
9. Founding of the Doc-Lap Dong Minh Hoi
10. Vietnam Declaration of Independence
11. FDR and Stalin Discuss Indochina at Tehran
12. British-American Rivalry in the Far East
13. Partition of Indochina Broached (Potsdam, 1945)
14. Decision to Partition Indochina (Potsdam, 1945)
15. Abdication of Bao Dai
16. Agreement on the Independence of Vietnam

Part III: The First Indochinese War
17. Genesis of the First Indochinese War
18. Onset of the War for Independence
19. Vietminh Directives
20. The Origin of U.S. Military Involvement
21. Opposition to the Spread of Communism
22. Fear of Impending French Defeat
23. S E A T O
24. The Day We Didn't Go to War
25. Dienbienphu: A Battle to Remember

Part IV: The Conference at Geneva
26. Power Politics at the Geneva Conference
27. Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities
28. Final Declaration of the Conference
29. Close of the Conference

Part V: The Fate of the Geneva Agreements: Testimony of the International Commission for Supervision and Control in Vietnam
30. The First Six Months of the International Commission for Supervision and Control
31. Vietminh Compliance with the Agreements
32. Differences in Compliance (1955)
33. Differences in Compliance (1956)
34. The Agreements after the Deadline for Elections
35. Airfields and U.S. Arms
36. Violations of the Agreements by South Vietnam
37. Achievements and Setbacks of the Commission
38. 'Democratic Freedoms' in 1961
39. Military Operations in Vietnam
40. Aggression, Subversion: A Divided Commission
41. The Commission in Escalating War
42. The Commission Leaves Vietnam

Part VI: The Reign of Ngo Dinh Diem
43. Diem on Elections in Vietnam
44. South Vietnamese Policy on Reunification
45. Vietnam's Democratic One-Man Rule
46. Eisenhower - Diem Correspondence
47. Joint Declaration: Johnson and Diem
48. Diem - Kennedy Correspondence
49. Ngo Dinh Diem and the Struggle for Reunification in Vietnam
50. The Genesis of the United States Support for Ngo Dinh Diem
51. Programme of the National Liberation Front
52. Repression in the South: Law 10/59
53. South Vietnam's Policy on Former Resistance Members
54. The Buddhist Crisis in Vietnam
55. The Coup in Saigon

Part VII: Problems of Escalation: An American Crisis
56. U.S. Congress Tonkin Gulf Resolution
57. U.S. 'White Paper'
58. A Reply to the White Paper
59. A Pattern for Peace in Southeast Asia
60. American Foreign Policy and International Law
61. Military Requirements for U.S. Victory in Vietnam
62. Revolutionary Warfare
63. Ho Chi Minh's Response to Escalation
64. Political Dynamics in South Vietnam
65. North Vietnam in an Escalating War

Part VIII: Toward Peace or Genocide
66. DRV and U.S. Negotiating Positions, 1965, 1966
67. Correspondence: Ho Chi Minh and Lyndon Johnson
68. NLF Political Programme, 1967
69. Ho Chi Minh's Appeal to the Nation
70. NLF's Ten Points
71. South Vietnam Congress of People's Representatives: Fundamental Resolutions
72. Declaration of the People's Revolutionary Government
73. Correspondence: Ho Chi Minh and Richard Nixon
74. 'Vietnamization' and the 'Silent Majority'
75. Testament of Ho Chi Minh
76. The Endless War
77. War Crimes and the Vietnam War
78. Statement on the Situation in Laos
79. Announcement of the Invasion of Cambodia
80. The Widened War in Southeast Asia

Appendices
Maps Index