851G.00/7–2947: Airgram
The Secretary of State to the Embassy in France 39
A–1044. The following is a report from the US Military Attaché, Bangkok, Siam, dated July 3, 1947:
“Mr. Charles Aeschlimann, International Red Cross, stated that he still intended upon arrival in Switzerland this week, to report to the International Red Cross the absolute necessity of having a cessation of hostilities in French Indo China. He, however, will continue to try to force arrangements for the import of medical supplies to Vietnam. This is still an embarrassing matter to the French who see complications arising out of permitting the International Red Cross to operate in what is strictly an ‘affaire intérieur’.”
- Copies sent to Saigon and Hanoi.↩