ENDNOTES

1. Statesman's Yearbook. 1964-1965, (London: The MacMillan Press Limited, 1965), 1596.

2. Bernard B. Fall, 'IndoChina 1946-1954'. in D.M. Condit and others, eds., Chatlenqe and Response in Internal Conflict. Volume I, The Experience In Asia (Washington. D.C.: The American University, 1968), 262. Fall estimated the number at 860,000.

3. Frances Fitzgerald, Fire in the Lake (Boston: Atlantic -Little Brown Books, 1972), 9.

4. Fall , 'IndoChina 1946-54', 242.

5. Robert Scigliano, South Vietnam: Nation Under Stress (Boston: Houghton Miff 1 in Company. 1963). 9.

6. Joseph J. Zasloff. 'The Problem of South Vietnam,' Commentary (February 1962), 127.

7. Congress. Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations, The U.S. Government and the Vietnam War. Executive and Legislative Roles and Relationships. Part 1. 1945-1961. report prepared by William Conrad Gibbons, 98th Cong., 2d sess., 1984, Senate Print 98-185 Pt. 2. p. 299. This study characterizes U.S. support for Diem's announcement that he would not meet with the North Vietnamese to discuss the 1956 elections as, 'complete'.

8. Lloyd W. Woodruff, Local Administration in Vietnam: The Number of Local Units (Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group, Agency for International Development, 1962), 2. The units of local administration were:

Provinces 38

Municipalities 4

Districts 209

Cantons 310

Villages 2,579

Hamlets 16,398

9. Jason L. Finkle and Tran Van Dinh. Provincial Government in Vietnam A Study of Vinh Long Province (Saigon: Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group and National Institute of Administration, 1961). 9.

10. Woodruff, Local Administration in Vietnam: The Number of Local Units. 4.

11. Dennis J. Duncanson. Government and Revolution in Vietnam (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968), 237.