Office of the Historian

751G.00/3–2454: Telegram

The Ambassador in France (Dillon) to the Department of State

confidential
Paris, March 24, 1954—noon.
[Received 10:19 a.m.]

3500. Repeated information Saigon 398. Last night at dinner with Laniel he said he was much more encouraged regarding Indochina [Page 1152] situation. The action at Dien Bien Phu had, he said, greatly improved morale in France and the spirit of defeatism, which had been rampant only a month ago, was now much more subdued.

Dillon