General Jean Joseph Marie Gabriel de Lattre de Tassigny, commander of the Far East Expeditionary Corps of the Army of France, speaking at the Pentagon warns that if the communist Viet Minh are allowed to take a foothold in northern Vietnam the rest of southeast Asian will fall to communism.
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References:
Stanley A. Karnow, Vietnam: A History, (1983; New York: Penguin, 1997), 202.
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