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FEB 4 1950

AMCONSUL, SAIGON, 59

You SHLD deliver (for timing see DEPTEL 58) the FOL Massages from the PRES to Bao Dai Laos and Cambodia After consultation FR High Commissioner Actual letters will FOL by pouch.


 * QTE Your Imperial Majesty:


 * I have Your Majesty's letter in which I am informed of the signing of the agreements of March 8, 1949 between Your Majesty, on behalf of Vietnam, and the President of the French Republic, on behalf of France. My Government has also been informed of the ratification on February 2, 1950 by the French Government of the agreements of March 8, 1949.


 * QTE Since these acts establish the Republic of Vietnam as an independent State within the French Union, I take this opportunity to congratulate Your Majesty and the people of Vietnam on this happy occasion.


 * QTE The Government of the United States of America is pleased to welcome the Republic of Vietnam into the community of peace-loving nations of the world and to extend diplomatic recognition to the Government of the Republic of Vietnam. I look forward to an early exchange of diplomatic representatives between our two countries.

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