Editorial Note
On August 5, 1954, Harold E. Stassen, Director of the Foreign Operations Administration, announced that measures were being taken to assist refugees in Indochina. For a summary of Stassen’s delineation of the aid being provided, see Department of State Bulletin, August 23, 1954, pages 265–266.
The role of the United States in the evacuation and resettlement of refugees from North Vietnam is described in a report published at Saigon in October 1954 by the Foreign Operations Administration Mission to Vietnam. For the text of this report, titled “Exodus: Report on a Voluntary Mass Flight to Freedom, Viet-Nam, 1954,” see Department of State Bulletin, February 7, 1955, pages 222–229.