790.5/8–1954
Memorandum From the British Embassy to the Department of State1
SEADO—United Kingdom Views
Article III
The following is a provisional suggestion for a redraft of this article:
“The parties recognise that their common aims cannot be realised without measures designed to promote economic prosperity, social progress and cultural advancement. The parties furthermore agree that in the development of such measures economic and technical assistance can play an important part in supplementing the efforts of individual Governments in achieving these aims.”
Designation of Viet Nam
2. The following wording is suggested:
“The area of Viet Nam south of the provisional military demarcation line defined by the agreement of July 20, 1954 on the cessation of hostilities in Viet Nam,2 this designation to lapse on the unification of Viet Nam by the elections prescribed in the final declaration of the Geneva Conference on Indo-China.”
Article IV(1)
3. Delete all after “on any of the parties” and substitute “or on the states or territories in that area designated by the parties in the protocol of designation annexed hereto, or subsequently designated by unanimous agreement of the Council, would endanger etc.”
- Handed to a representative of the Department by Joy the morning of Aug. 19.↩
- For text, see vol. xvi, p. 1505.↩