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 * Repeat and reemphasize their views and recommendations on Indochina which you forwarded to Secretary of State on 14 April 1950. Recommend these recommendations be reflected in State paper.

Recommend that, besides telling French, U. S. prepared to assist French and Three Associated States, French also be told that arrangements for U. S. military aid be made as a result of conversations in Indochina between U. S., French, Vietnamese, Laotian and Cambodian military representatives. Also recommend State make unmistakable to French the firm desire of the U. S. to send a military aid group to Indochina at the earliest possible date. Rh