Editorial Note

For text of NSC 5429, “Review of U.S. Policy in the Far East,” August 4, 1954, a report to the National Security Council by the Planning Board, see volume XII. This report, which included a section on Indochina, was approved (as amended) by the Council at its 210th Meeting, August 12, 1954, as NSC 5429/1. For extracts from the memorandum of discussion at the 210th Meeting of the NSC and other documentation relating to the NSC 5429 series, see ibid.