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 :3. Mr. Dulles said that the Mendes Government put more emphasis on the granting of independence to the Associated States than had the Laniel Government. Mendes even agreed that French and eventually armed forces would have to leave the area. It was current French planning to hold Haiphong until French forces   could be evacuated but not to attempt to maintain Haiphong as a permanent enclave.


 * 4. When asked if the VN would agree to the seven points, the Secretary said he was not sure but he could count on support from Laos and Cambodia. Mr. Allen Dulles felt the possibility of VN uprising against the French was a real one.


 * 5. Mendes had assured Secretary Dulles that if the Geneva Conference was a failure, he would send two additional French divisions to Indochina, although they could not arrive before September, 1954.

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