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Waiting upon Events

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On 8 September 1953, Mr Ogburn, the Regional Planning Adviser in the State Department’s Bureau of Far Eastern Affairs, concluded a wide-ranging memorandum on Alternatives in Indochina with the words:

‘We do not want to be alarmist, but we must be alert to the possibility of seriously adverse developments as the current campaign develops.’—JOHN TAHOURDIN1

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Cable, J. (2000). Waiting upon Events. In: The Geneva Conference of 1954 on Indochina. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230599253_3

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