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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3 NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011   : and sincere negotiations. These negotiations will deal particularly with:


 * a. diplomatic relations of Viet-nam with Foreign States


 * b. the future law of Indochina


 * c. French interests, economic and cultural, in Viet-nam.


 * Hanoi, Saigon or Paris may be chosen as the seat of the conference.

French forces quickly exercised their prerogative, occupying Hanoi on 18 March 1946, and negotiations opened in Dalat in April.

Hence, as of April 10, 1946, allied occupation in Indochina was officially over, and French forces were positioned in all of Vietnam's major cities; the problems of U.S. policy toward Vietnam then shifted from the context of wartime strategy to the arena of U.S. relationship with France. Rh