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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011 Enclosure No. 1 to despatch no. 890 dated November 26, 1945

from Embassy, Chungking, China

Ho Chi Minh to Sec of State 1 Nov, '45

Hanoi 1st of November 1945

President HochiMinh of Provisional Government of Viet-Nam
 * Democratic Republic

to His Excellency James Byrnen

Secretary of State Department of the United States of America

Washington, D.C.

Excellency,

On behalf of the Vietnam cultural Association, I beg to express the desire of this Association to send to the United States of America a delegation of about fifty Vietnam youths with a view to establishing friendly cultural relations with the American youth on the one hand, and carrying on further studies in Engineering, Agriculture as well as other lines of specialisation on the other.

The desire which I am conveying to your Excellency has been expressed to me by all the Vietnam Engineers, Lawyers, Professors, as well as other representatives of our intelligentsia whom I have come across.

They have been all these years keenly interested in things American and earnestly desirous to get into touch with the American people whose fine stand for the noble ideals of international Justice and Humanity, and whose modern technical achievements have so strongly appealed to them.

I sincerely wish that this plan would be favored by your approbation and assistance and avail myself of this opportunity to express to your Excellency my best wishes.

President Ho-CHI-MINH (signed) HochiMinh