Index

• A Seap, 407
• Abramov, Aleksandr, 982
• Achilles, Theodore C., 187n
• Addis, Sir William, 778, 825, 857, 911, 991
  • political situation in Laos, 755–757, 759, 763–764, 768n, 775–776, 969
• Afghanistan, 10, 85, 190
• Afro-Asian military governments. See Dictatorships.
• Air America, 1017, 1020
• Air Force, U.S. Department of the, 324n
• Alden, Col. Victor, 507
• Aldrich, Chauncey, 664n, 673
• Algeria, 691
• Allen, George V., 101, 206–207, 485
• Alphand, Hervé, 73, 127, 293–295, 318
  • Laos, 69–70, 523–525, 526n, 622, 627, 630, 777–778, 981
• American University, Beirut, 100–101
• Amkha Soukhavong, Gen., 722–723, 805, 816, 873
• Amory, Robert, 776
• Anderson, Daniel V., 190n, 205, 227n, 329, 339, 354n, 357n, 364n, 634n, 645n, 646n, 656n, 658n, 665n, 675n, 678n, 688n, 707n, 717n, 750n, 751n, 752n, 757n, 766n, 772n, 786n, 797n, 806n, 828n, 1005
  • Cambodia, 353, 360–363, 370, 373–375, 405–407
  • Laos, 567, 569, 592, 612, 615, 663, 664n, 699–700, 779, 804–806
• Anderson, Dillon, 507
• Anderson, Robert B., 133
• ANZUS (Australia-New Zealand-U.S. Defense Organization), 45–46, 48–49, 54, 139, 156–169
  • Council Meeting, Washington, 45–58
• ANZUS treaty, 39n
• Argentina, 605–606
• Armstrong, Oscar V, 592
• Army, U.S. Department of the, 324n
• Asbjornson, Mildred, 966, 973n
• Asia (see also Colombo Plan; Far East; Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia Treaty Organization; specific countries), 1–5, 409
• Asia Foundation, 157
• Askew, Laurin B., 274, 278n, 281n, 285n, 288n, 293, 297n, 300n, 308n, 309n, 313n, 315n, 321n, 325n, 348n, 355n, 357n, 360n, 362n, 364n, 371n, 376n, 378n, 385n, 392n, 404, 405n, 592, 598n, 602n
  • Cambodia, 353–354, 363n, 404
• Aung San, Gen., 949
• Australia (see also ANZUS; Australian sub-headings under other subjects), 53–58, 87, 141, 168–169, 223–225, 322, 327
• Ayub Khan, Mohammed, 201, 736
• Bacon, Leonard L., 423n
• Baghdad Pact (CENTO), 17, 82, 193, 202
• Baird, Julian B., 133
• Ballantyne, Robert J., 172n, 173n, 175n
• Bao Dai, 263
• Barbour, Robert E., 176n
• Barbour, Walworth, 172
• Barnes, Robert G., 423n
• Barre, Jean, 290, 331
• Barrett, Eugene P., 290
• Beale, Howard, 51, 55, 58, 106, 109
• Beck-Friis, Baron, 269n, 374
• Beeley, Harold, 127, 549–550, 627
• Beigel, Edgar J., 523
• Bell, John O., 562n, 567, 612, 675n, 974
• Bérard, Armand, 127, 627
• Bending, Andrew H., 411, 576, 678n
• Berlin issue, 67–68, 180
• Bermuda Conference, 1953, 24
• Bernau, Phyllis D., 58n
• Bingham, Col. Sidney V., Jr., 466n, 525, 534–535, 568, 592, 597, 740n, 890
• Bishop, Frederick, 40
• Bissell, Richard, 568
• Blickenstaff, David, 643
• Boggs, Marion W., 3–4, 116n, 178n, 209n, 491, 553, 612, 623n, 633, 698, 745n, 752n, 845n, 859n, 867n, 880n, 982, 998, 1014n, 1021
• Bohlen, Charles E., 170, 978n, 1010n
• Bong Souvannavong, 425, 440, 443, 468–469, 474, 486, 657, 703, 806
• Booker, M.R., 173
• Boon Chafoenchai, 372n
• Bouasy, 468
• Boun Oum, 832, 884, 991, 1012
  • Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt, 837–838, 842, 845, 914
  • political situation in Laos, 799, 802n, 860–862, 865, 867, 878n, 936, 950, 964, 972
  • Prime Minister role for, 847, 849n, 850–851, 870, 1004, 1026
• Bounleuth, Gen., 862, 865, 873, 875, 932, 937, 967, 974n, 977, 991
• Bounma, Col., 961
• Bounpone, 952
• Bounthieng, Gen., 706
• Bourguiba, Habib, 629
• Bouvan Norasing, 775
• Brewster, Robert C., 592
• Brook, Norman, 40, 576
• Brown, L. Dean, 69
• Brown, Brig. Gen. Rothwell H., 426, 430–431, 452–453, 479
• Brown, Winthrop G., 227, 902, 949n, 1010
  • audience with King Savang, 876, 877n, 881–886, 891, 901, 922n, 926, 932n
  • Kong Le coup, 790n, 796, 945–947
  • Luang Prabang government, proposal for, 885, 952–953, 966–969, 970
  • military situation in Laos, 951, 954n, 958n, 974n, 991–993, 1001–1002, 1004
  • Pathet Lao, 896, 927
  • Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt, 825–826, 836–838, 873, 875, 911–912, 930–933, 940
    • U.S. military aid to, 879–880, 888n, 906, 978–980, 979n
  • policy differences with Washington, 891, 894, 938–939, 986–988
  • political situation in Laos, 815–817, 857–863, 895, 922n, 972, 975–976, 994–996, 1018–1019
  • government by Royal decree, 869, 883–886, 955n, 956n
  • Royal reconciliation proposal, 840–842, 849–851, 876
  • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 806n, 808, 831n, 832n, 837n, 841–845, 853n, 876–878, 936, 977
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 203, 824–825, 872, 890, 913–914, 915n, 954n, 989n
  • U.S. relations with Laos, 779–781, 814, 899, 902, 991n, 1005
• Brownfield, 928–929, 987
• Buddhism, 19, 33, 216, 418
• Budget, Bureau of the, 117, 118, 121–122
• Buffum, Willilam B., 64In
• Bulganin, Nikolai A., 11
• Bunker, Ellsworth, 98, 348
• Burgess, W. Randolph, 187
• Burke, Adm. Arleigh A., 98–100, 426n, 602n
  • Laos, 422, 606n, 813, 1008, 1010
    • military situation, 568–572, 592, 594–597, 846–847
    • U.S. military aid to, 431, 433n, 453, 974
• Burma (see also Burma and Burmese sub-headings under other subjects), 9, 67, 189, 322, 537
  • Burmese Anti-Fascist Peoples Freedom League, 949
  • Cambodia, relations with, 231, 345
  • Chinese People’s Republic relations with, 94, 182, 408
  • India, relations with, 94
  • Laos, relations with, 35, 165, 220, 518
  • political situation, 10, 19, 191, 203–205, 208, 651, 682, 736
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 94
  • Thailand, relations with, 90, 188, 299, 347
  • U.S. policy toward, 34, 217–218
• Burn, North C., 429n
• Busik, Cdr., 592
• Butler, Col., 592
• Byington, Homer S., 94, 348
• Byrne, Patricia M., 412, 420–421, 423n, 429n, 434n
• Cabal, Lt. Gen. Manuel E., 79n, 166
• Cabell, Gen. Charles P., 504n, 592, 596–597, 835–836, 938–940, 1024–1026, 1029
• Caccia, Harold, 39–40, 61, 64, 67–69, 227
  • Laos, 109, 153–154, 172, 227, 576, 981
• Calhoun, John A., 678, 886, 888n, 890
• Cambodia (see also Cambodia and Cambodian subheadings under other subjects):
  • Australia, relations with, 289–290, 367–368, 377n, 378
  • Bank of China, 243
  • border incidents:
    • Canadian position, 238–239
    • Thailand, 267–269, 353
    • U.S. position, 371–372
    • Vietnam, Republic of, 208, 238–239, 255–256, 259, 266n, 296, 298, 323
  • British military aid to, 377n, 378, 386
  • Burma, relations with, 231, 345
  • China, People’s Republic of, relations with, 204–205, 345, 361:
    • Chou En-lai visit, 182, 188, 200, 204, 357, 360–361, 364, 366–368, 373, 408
    • diplomatic recognition of, 84, 239–246, 248, 250–251, 270, 472
    • Economic Aid Agreement (1956), 408n
    • navigation agreement, 408n
    • Sihanouk visit, 249–250, 374, 393, 396, 405–409
    • Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Nonaggression, 233–238, 375–376, 405, 408
  • Chinese community in, 242, 350
  • Chinese People’s Republic economic aid to Cambodia, 182, 230, 249–250, 405, 409
  • Chinese People’s Republic military aid to, 204–206, 249–250, 259, 366, 368, 409
  • Chinese People’s Republic threat to, 345
  • communism, 11, 85, 254, 313n, 325, 349n, 746
  • coup plots, 246–247, 260–264, 274–275, 280, 292–292, 295–297, 296, 308–313, 320–321
    • Australian position, 289–290
    • Chinese People’s Republic intervention, request for, 311, 316
    • Chinese People’s Republic position, 286, 291
    • French position, 289–290, 293, 317–319
    • palace bomb incident, 330–332, 335, 337–338, 352, 375
    • Sino-Soviet position, 272–273
    • U.S. intervention, request for, 282–285, 288–289, 300–306
    • U.S. position, 257–258, 265, 270, 276–282, 285–289
    • Vietnam, Republic of, support for, 256–266, 269–271
  • defense of. See Southeast Asia Treaty Organization role in below.
  • elections, 254, 283–284, 304, 308
  • exports, 230
  • France, relations with, 90, 219, 262
  • Free Khmer forces, 330, 337–338, 351
  • Free Khmer Radio, 330–332, 336–337
  • French military and economic aid to, 341, 377n, 378, 386, 394–395, 397–399
  • India, relations with, 345, 360
  • Indonesia, relations with, 345
  • Japanese military aid to, 399
  • Khmer-American Friendship Highway, 333n, 356
  • Kompong Kantuot Teachers’ Training Institute, 381
  • Laos, relations with, 204, 262, 371–372, 415, 428, 518, 1021
  • Malaya, relations with, 345
  • media, government control of, 350
  • military force goals, 95
  • neutralism, 312–313, 351, 407
    • Australian position, 86
    • Cambodian position, 254
    • French position, 85
    • leftward trend, 295–296, 321, 325, 337, 379, 405, 409–410
    • U.S. position, 228–229, 235, 241, 255, 324–325, 334
  • political situation, 65, 349–352, 364–365
    • British position, 191
    • French position, 20
    • Pakistani position, 9
    • U.S. position, 178, 387–389
  • Preah Vihear temple, 199, 267–268, 346, 353–354
  • Royal School of Medicine, 381
  • Sangkum Reastr Niyum, 284
  • Siem Riep revolt, 279, 291
  • Sino-Soviet bloc military aid to, 229–230, 368, 393, 396
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization role in, 241, 282, 290, 292, 298–299, 346, 348, 395
  • Soviet military and economic aid to, 205, 229, 363, 371, 379, 405–406
  • Thailand, relations with, 188, 218–220, 262, 267–269, 291–292, 308, 324–325, 366, 374–376
    • border disputes, 35, 199–200, 231, 267–269, 346, 352–354
    • Cambodian dissidents, support of, 246–247, 348, 407
    • diplomatic break, 298–299
    • election observer role, 284
    • improvements in, 204–205, 241, 256, 292, 314, 334, 353
    • SEATO and, 44
    • traditional animosities, 278, 345, 358, 373, 387
    • U.S. position, 306, 355–356, 361, 371–372, 380
  • Tibet, 408
  • U.N. role in, 284, 348, 374–375, 407, 636, 643
  • United Kingdom, relations with, 365, 368
  • United States, relations with, 204–208, 276, 313–315, 355–359
  • U.S. economic aid to, 35, 245, 248–249, 333–334, 339–342, 381
  • U.S. military aid to, 35, 205–209, 248–249, 252–253, 259, 340–341, 368, 380, 389–391, 395
    • jet aircraft and pilot training, 206–207, 210, 365–367, 370–371, 376–378, 385–386, 390–392, 396, 406
      • State-Defense Department dispute over, 393–395, 397–402
    • Thai position, 376–377
    • Vietnam, Republic of, position, 376–377
  • U.S. policy toward, 34–35, 178, 218–219, 297–299, 325–329
  • Viet Minh invasion of, 230
  • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 218, 221, 231, 284, 366
    • Australian position, 327
    • border control arrangements, 308, 319–320, 323–327
    • border incidents, 230–239, 250, 255–256, 259, 358–359, 364, 367
    • British position, 327
    • Cambodian dissidents, support of, 204–205, 247, 256–266, 285–287, 292–293, 298–300, 330–332, 335–338, 342–344, 348
    • Diem-Sihanouk talks, 329–330, 335–336, 338, 344, 345n
    • prisoners, 259, 296, 298–299
    • Stung Treng boundary marker, 255–256, 259
    • Thai position, 359–360
    • traditional animosities, 278, 358
    • U.S. good offices, 315–320
    • U.S. military aid requests, 376
    • U.S. position, 276–277, 306, 313–314, 322, 355–356, 361, 371–372, 380
    • U.S. role, 315–320, 325–327, 333
  • Vietnamese community in, 350
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic, relations with, 230
• Cargo, William I., 612, 614–615, 641n
• Carlson, Frank, 96
• Casey, Richard G., 6, 21–22, 24, 45–46, 49–53, 56–58, 86–88, 91, 156–158, 168–169
  • Laos, 85–86, 148–150, 154–155, 160–161
• Castro, Fidel, 384–385
• Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 324n
  • Laos, 504n, 535n, 592, 596–598, 679, 741–742, 779, 828n, 835–836, 1014n
  • Outer Mongolia, 119–120
• Ceylon, 10
• Champa, Gov., 943
• Chao Nith Nokham, 456, 468, 639
• Chao Souvath Sayavong, 728
• Chapman, Christian, 560n, 562n, 567, 592, 641n, 645n, 646n, 665n, 675n, 678n, 688n, 707n, 710n, 720n, 732n, 740n, 751n, 752n, 757n, 766n, 772n, 776n, 779, 806n, 820n, 828n, 829n, 831n, 833n, 839n, 848n, 851, 853n, 869n, 919n, 941n, 958n, 963n, 971n, 980n, 1018n, 1022n
  • Laos, 659–662, 699–700
• Charusreni, Gen. Surajit, 225
• Charyk, Joseph V., 391–392
• Chase, Brig. Gen. Charles H., 380, 391
• Chiang Kai-shek, 64, 66, 115, 118, 124–125, 185, 200, 255, 268, 276, 297
• China, People’s Republic of (see also China, People’s Republic of and Chinese People’s Republic subheadings under other subjects), 62–66, 114, 134, 180–181
  • British policy toward, 62, 68
  • Burma, relations with, 94, 182, 408
  • Cambodia, relations with, 204–205, 345, 361
    • diplomatic recognition by, 82, 239–246, 248, 250–251, 270, 472
    • Economic Aid Agreement (1956), 408n
    • navigation agreement, 408n
    • Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Nonaggression, 233–238, 375–376, 405, 408
  • China, Republic of, relations with, 192, 268
  • diplomatic recognition of:
    • Australian position, 21, 194, 196–197, 201
    • British position, 192
    • Cambodia. See under Cambodia above.
    • French position, 194
    • Laos. See under Laos below.
    • New Zealand position, 13, 18, 23
    • Philippine position, 194–196, 201
    • Thai position, 194, 199
    • U.S. position, 15, 138, 185, 202n
  • economic situation, 114, 134–135, 143
  • India, relations with, 182, 188, 190–192
  • Japan, relations with, 66–67
  • Laos, relations with, 414–415, 517, 519, 789, 1022
    • diplomatic recognition by, 797–798, 844
  • military threat of, 10, 139–140
  • Pakistan, relations with, 200
  • Philippines, relations with, 195–196
  • political situation, 62–63, 66
  • Singapore, relations with, 215
  • Soviet Union, relations with, 117, 134, 179–180, 188, 192, 602, 811
  • Taiwan Straits conflict, 180
  • Thailand, relations with, 9
  • Tibet invasion:
    • British position, 85, 86n, 192
    • Cambodian position, 408
    • Indian position, 86–87
    • New Zealand position, 92
    • Pakistani position, 190
    • U.S. position, 85, 134
  • U.N. membership for, 195–198
    • Cambodian position, 408
    • New Zealand position, 189
    • U.S. position, 15, 138, 185, 202n
  • United States, relations with, 125, 250, 560
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 492
  • U.S. policy toward, 116, 122–123, 137–139, 143
• China, Republic of (see also China, Republic of subheadings under other subjects), 66, 185, 255
  • ANZUS role, 58n
  • Cambodia, U.S. military aid to, 395, 398
  • Chinese People’s Republic, relations with, 182, 268
  • communism, 11
  • Indonesia, relations with, 41
  • Japan, relations with, 25
  • Laos, relations with, 214, 834
  • Malaya, 214
  • military actions by, 122–123, 126. 139–140
  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), military relations with, 6
  • Singapore, 214
  • Southeast Asia, 33, 209n
  • Taiwan Straits conflict, 64, 180
  • Thailand, relations with, 214
  • United States, relations with, 49, 56, 138–139, 276, 297
  • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 214
• Chinese offshore islands, 62–64, 124, 185, 250n
• Chou En-lai, 190–191, 249n
  • Cambodian visit, 182, 188, 200, 204, 357, 360–361, 364, 366–368, 373, 408
• Choudri, Adm., 48
• Christmas Island, 58
• Churchill, Winston S., 24, 39n
• Civil Air Transport, 51
• Clarac, Amb., 637
• Cleveland, Robert G., 252n, 360n, 364n, 385n, 391, 405n, 663–665, 772n, 925n
• Colegrove, Albert M., 336
• Collins, Gen. J. Lawton, 139, 264, 507
• Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia, 4, 215–216
  • Australian position, 21
  • British position, 61, 68
  • meetings, Seattle, 42–43, 68
  • Philippine position, 189
  • U.S. position, 32–33, 58
• Colonialism, 409
• Committee on Asian Regional Economic Development and Cooperation, 2–4
• Commonwealth, British, 37, 166
• Communism, 46, 412–414
• Conference for the Conclusion and Signature of the Treaty of Peace with Japan (1951), 412, 414
• Congo, Republic of the (Leopoldville), 905, 915, 920, 982, 1021
• Congress, U.S., 419, 422, 449, 468, 495, 562–563, 639–640, 647
  • Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 95n, 98, 600
• Corcoran, Thomas J., 69, 436n, 438n, 441n, 448n, 451n, 460n, 472n, 475n, 481n, 485n, 491n, 502n, 505n, 508n, 512n, 521n, 523, 525n, 529n, 542n, 547n, 937, 965
  • Laos, 534, 866, 930, 977, 994, 1001
    • Luang Prabang government, 950, 953–955, 956n, 957, 959–962, 967, 971
• Cordier, Andrew W., 593
• Cottrell, Sterling, 866
• Council on Foreign Economic Policy, 1–5
• Counterinsurgency, 81, 83, 93–94
• Couve de Murville, Maurice J., 188, 197, 318, 630
  • Laos, 150–151, 522, 549–551, 622, 627–628, 864, 950
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 127–128, 170, 172, 175, 176n
• Cross, Charles T., 359n
• Cuba, 169
• Cumming, Hugh S., Jr., 231, 260, 267n, 271–272, 278n, 281n, 285n, 625n, 626n, 863n, 903n, 999n
  • Cambodia, 365–367
  • Laos, 592, 601–602, 612–613, 615, 723, 724n, 729, 731, 734, 997, 1012
• Cutler, Brig. Gen. Robert, 1, 3–4
• Czechoslavakia, 204, 229, 368–369, 393
• Dale, William N., 40
• Dap Chhuon, 246–247, 263–264
  • Cambodian coup plots, 271, 272n, 276–279, 283, 285–287, 290–291, 294, 296, 307–308, 316, 331, 336, 350, 343. 387
• Daridan, Jean H., 69–71, 73, 317, 505–506, 508, 510n, 511–512, 522, 524
• D’Arrivere, Gen., 491, 512, 514n, 515, 520, 522–524, 566
• de Gaulle, Gen. Charles, 184, 203–204, 465, 530n, 537, 623, 651
• de la Mare, Arthur, 69, 128–129, 131–132
• De Zulueta, Philip F., 576
• Dean, John G., 425–426
• Dean, Patrick, 40, 170
• Decker, Gen. George H., 96
• Defense, U.S. Department of, 117–121, 124, 393–395, 397–402, 829n
  • Defense-State Department conflicts, 986–988
  • Laos, 779
    • military situation, 592, 596–598, 600, 602n, 785, 810, 835–836
    • political situation, 828n, 869n, 886–888, 938–939
    • U.S. military aid to, 432, 466–468, 494, 525–526, 568, 635n, 933–934, 983, 1017–1018
• Delafon, Lt. Col., 521, 523, 526, 555, 566
• Dennison, Adm. Robert L., 69–70
• Denny, Adm. Michael M., 69
• Desai, Manilal Jagndish, 70
• Deuane, Lt., 923, 946–947, 954
• Development Loan Fund, 89, 342
• Dictatorships, 97–102, 115, 117–118, 200, 262, 736
• Diefenbaker, John G., 383
• Diem. See Ngo Dinh Diem.
• Dillon, C. Douglas, 602n, 675n, 701n, 707n, 742n, 806n, 818n, 820n, 863n, 903n, 980n
  • Cambodia, 325–329, 333n, 378n, 393
  • Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia, 58–59
  • defense of the Far East, 95n, 121–125
  • France, relations with the United States, 630
  • Indonesia, 197–198
  • International Control Commission, 553
  • Japan, 41–42
  • Laos, 419–420, 423, 507, 553, 669, 684, 920–922 [Page 1037]
    • defense of, 78–79, 106–110, 610–612, 614–616
    • military situation, 567, 570–572, 592–598, 601–605, 612–613, 623–624, 708–709, 809–811, 822, 846, 983
    • Soviet Union, relations with, 560, 868, 898, 1013
    • U.N. role, 106–107, 556–559, 606
    • United States, relations with, 411, 889–891, 893–894, 897
    • U.S. military aid to, 475–477, 601, 616–621, 634
  • military dictatorships, 97, 99, 105, 117–118
  • passport travel restrictions, 119–120
  • Pathet Lao, 546
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 75–79, 84n, 85, 87, 91
  • Tibet, 86–87
• Disarmament, 21, 57, 189, 192, 198, 202, 409, 777
• Dixon, Ben F., 791–792
• Dixon, Sir Pierson, 127, 627
• Djuanda, 88
• Dooley, Thomas, 417
• Douglas, James H., Jr., 56, 785, 813, 948, 998, 1008–1010, 1024, 1028
• Dowling, Vice Adm. Roy, 79, 157, 161–164, 167, 225
• Draper, William H., 507
• Draper Committee, 507
• Dulles, Allen W., 62, 99, 119, 126, 158, 169, 203, 208, 472, 859
  • Laos, 208, 421, 429, 611, 633, 876, 882, 920–922, 1014–1016, 1021
    • military situation, 498–499, 537–538, 546, 552–553, 559–560, 568–571, 708–709, 787–789, 845–846, 982, 997–998, 1021
    • political situation, 436, 450, 471–472, 474, 698, 808–809, 812, 833, 835–836, 886, 982
    • Soviet Union, relations with, 868, 893, 898
  • Pathet Lao, 745–746, 800–801, 859, 1024, 1029
  • Southeast Asian internal security, 45–46, 203–206, 208
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic, 620–621, 623–624
• Dulles, John Foster, 6, 14–17, 21, 23–24, 46–47, 62–68, 76, 98, 101, 520
  • ANZUS, 52, 58n
  • Cambodia, 65, 233n, 253–255, 267n
  • China, Republic of, 123–124
  • Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia, 42–43, 59n
  • communism, 412–414, 417
  • four-power military planning, 39n, 40
  • Laos, 65, 411–412, 417–418, 421, 436, 481, 507, 541–542
  • Soviet Union, 11, 14
• Durbrow, Elbridge, 260, 263–265, 271, 347, 595, 892
  • Cambodia, 234–235, 295, 307, 309–310, 348
  • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 233n, 319, 335–338, 342–346, 380
• Durdin, Tillman, 362n, 363
• Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), 21, 86, 189, 334
• Eisenberg, Robert, 691, 744
• Eisenhower, Dwight D., 18, 27, 58n, 76–77, 97–102, 117–125, 179n
  • Cambodia, 253, 313–315, 330–332, 333n, 379
    • coup plots, 272n, 279, 282–285, 289–290, 291n, 292–293, 300, 303–305, 308, 313–315
    • U.S. military aid to, 382–383, 399–404
  • Colombo Plan for Cooperative Economic Development in South and Southeast Asia, 42–43, 59, 68
  • four-power military planning, 38–41, 59
  • Laos, 420, 472, 491, 507, 576–577, 606–607, 644, 1007–1009, 1021
    • defense of, 594, 597–598, 600n, 610, 612, 620–622, 1009
    • Kong Le coup, 782, 803n, 810–811
    • military situation, 602, 708–709, 719, 998, 1024–1029
    • Phoumi-Boun Oum revolt, 838–839, 845–846, 882, 973
    • political situation, 450, 806n, 807
    • U.S. military aid to, 572, 616–617, 619, 788, 893, 895
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 6, 24, 76–77, 131n, 167, 202n, 620–622, 1009
  • Soviet Union, 11, 184–186, 905
  • Thailand, 1016
  • United Nations, 383–385, 606–607
• Eisenhower, Col. John S.D., 272, 312n, 313n, 1024n, 1025
  • Cambodia, 256–257, 375, 382–385
  • Laos, 576, 941, 1013–1014
    • military situation, 548–549, 551–552, 607–608, 782, 793, 802–804, 840–841, 998
    • political situation, 719–720, 814–815, 827–828, 1003–1004, 1008
• Elbrick, C. Burke, 40
• Eliot, T.L., Jr., 393n
• Elting, Howard, 260, 263, 269–270
• Emmons, Arthur B., III, 106n, 145n, 223, 592, 612
• Engen, Hans, 407
• Erickson, Elden B., 479, 656n, 663n, 688n, 748n, 797n
• Export controls, 38, 143, 223
• Falaize, Amb., 756–759, 763–765, 768, 786n, 814, 825, 852, 857, 969
• Far East (see also Asia; Colombo Plan; Southeast Asia; Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO); specific countries), 120, 121–122, 135, 140–141, 179–182
  • Indian role in, 136, 143
  • Japanese role in, 136, 143
  • U.S. policy toward the, 114–127, 134–144
• Far East Chiefs of Mission Conference, Baguio, 307n
• Farley, Philip J., 170
• Felt, Adm. Harry D., 48–49, 79n, 95–96, 157, 777n, 969, 1025
  • Cambodia, 265–266, 394
  • Laos, 478, 495, 499, 526n, 796n, 876, 962, 971n, 974, 1017–1018
  • military planning, 49–52, 59–60
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 47, 77, 84n, 87, 114n, 131, 162–167
• Finland, 416–418
• FitzGerald, Dennis A., 411
• Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 744
• Ford Foundation, 381
• Foreign economic policy of the United States, 15–17
• Formosa. See Taiwan; China, Republic of.
• France (see also France, French, French U.S., and Tripartite subheadings under other subjects), 6, 20, 197, 651
  • Cambodia, U.S. relations with, 293–295, 312, 315, 317–319, 324, 326, 346
  • Laos, U.S. relations with, 484, 630, 633, 637–640, 658, 909–911
  • United Kingdom, relations with, 778
  • Western Mediterranean Pact, 6
• Fromer, Julian P., 786, 789, 790n, 791, 828–830, 861
• Fujiyama, Achiro, 41
• Fulbright, J. William, 1021
• Funseth, Robert L., 1010n
• Garcia, Carlos P., 24, 65
• Gardiner, Arthur Z., 336, 342–343
• Gardner, 726n
• Gassouin, Oliver, 460n, 491, 505n, 510, 512, 514–515, 521n, 524, 623, 726
• Gates, Thomas S., Jr., 886, 933
  • Cambodia, U.S. military aid to, 206, 392, 399–403
  • Laos, 809–811, 822, 846, 868, 868–869, 881, 886, 948, 974, 1016
    • U.S. military aid to, 882, 893–894, 933
    • U.S.-U.K. talks on, 576–577
• Geneva Accords (see also International Control Commission, Geneva Accords subheadings under other subjects), 146
  • Article 6, 505–506
  • Article 9, 577
  • Article 27, 679
  • British position, 636
  • Chinese People’s Republic position, 548
  • French position, 523–524, 636
  • Soviet position, 636
• Geneva Conference (1954) (see also Geneva Accords), 470, 484, 541, 624
• German unification, 90–91, 186, 413, 416
• Germany, Democratic Republic of, 560
• Germany, Federal Republic of, 54, 56, 192
• Gleason, S. Everett, 97, 450, 474, 499, 538
• Gleeck, Louis E., Jr., 41, 182n
• Glenn, Edmund S., 382, 412
• Goode, Gov., 157
• Goodpaster, Gen. Andrew J., 40, 76n, 131n, 302n, 382n, 402, 606n, 620, 708, 893n, 1006n
  • Laos, 576, 838–839, 973, 1007–1010, 1025, 1028
• Gorce, Pierre, 266, 289–290, 294–295, 312, 317–318, 321
• Gray, Gordon, 97, 99–100, 117–118, 205–208, 400–404, 620
  • Laos, 207–208, 611, 882, 890, 1016, 1024
  • U.S. policy in the Far East, 116–125
• Green, Marshall, 69, 114n, 128n, 547n, 558n, 562n, 582n, 608n, 635n, 641n
  • Laos, 564, 592, 594–596, 612, 615–616
• Gromyko, Andrei A., 549
• Gruenther, Gen. Alfred, 802
• Guerrilla warfare, 610
• Hagerty, James C, 576, 1024
• Hammarskjöld, Dag, 320–321, 383, 636, 646, 658, 678–680, 751, 761n, 841
  • International Control Commission, 541–542, 547n
  • Laos, 549–550, 599, 658, 679, 751, 761n, 841
  • Thai-Cambodian relations, 269n, 374
  • U.N. role in Laos, 557–591n, 593, 614, 673, 742–745, 864, 1026
    • factfinding team, 108, 148–149, 195, 571, 577–578, 606
    • long-term presence, 627–629, 631–633, 635–636, 641–644
• Hare, Raymond G., 223, 1006n, 1008, 1010, 1013
• Harr, Karl G., Jr., 178, 612
• Hartshorn, Brig. Gen. Edwin S., 229, 244–245
• Hasey, John F., 959, 994
• Haskins, Charles A., 787
• Hatta, Mohammed, 196
• Heintges, Brig. Gen. John A., 567, 584, 724n, 789, 802, 817, 988
  • coup d’état in Laos, Dec. 1959, 705–706, 711–712, 714–715, 719
  • French military aid to Laos, 514n, 617, 777n
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 491–495, 499, 501–503, 504n, 505–506, 520, 526, 528, 530, 534
• Heinz, Adm. Luther C., 1019n
• Henderson, Loy, 683n, 684, 751, 1006–1008, 1010–1012
• Herter, Christian A., 126, 194n, 209n, 313n, 379n, 656n, 869n, 948n, 1006n
  • Cambodia, 205, 231, 302–303, 334, 364, 373–374, 391
    • coup plots, 288, 293–296, 300, 335
    • U.S. military and economic aid to, 206, 252, 253n, 333–334, 365, 376, 399–403
  • China, People’s Republic of, 192, 202
  • France, 167, 208, 318
  • Indonesia, 168–169, 197–198
  • Laos, 158, 541–542, 552, 576–577, 644, 839, 866, 920, 978n, 1016
    • military situation, 158, 549–551, 567, 569, 787, 833, 838–839, 973, 997–998
    • SEATO role, 145–146, 148–149, 155–156, 161–165, 169–171, 195
    • tripartite talks, 622, 864, 1015
    • U.N. role, 627–629, 631, 641–642, 688, 742, 744, 746
    • U.S. military aid to, 208, 777–778
  • Singapore, 156, 158
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 76, 127–128, 145–146, 148–149, 155–156, 161–165
  • Soviet Union, 192, 1016
  • United Nations, 384–385, 635
  • Vietnam, Republic of, 206, 231
• Hieu. See Ngo Trong Hieu.
• Hinh, Gen., 263
• Ho Chi Minh, 553, 679
• Hoegh, Leo A., 124
• Hogg, Capt., 173
• Holdridge, John, 833n
• Holloway, Adm., 41
• Holmes, Julius C., 927–930
• Holt, John B., 532–533, 538–540, 926
• Home, Lord, 864
• Hong Kong, 19, 335
• Hood, Viscount Samuel, 105–106, 127, 627
• Houmphan Norasing, Col., 874, 899–900, 913, 923–925, 928–929, 931, 935–936, 945–946, 951, 967
  • Luang Prabang government, proposal for, 954, 957–958, 961, 963–965
• Howe, Fisher, 252n
• Hoyer Millar, Frederick, 172, 576, 864
• Huertematte, Roberto, 742–745
• Hungary, 63
• Imperial, Jose, 88–89, 91
• India (see also International Control Commission; India and Indian subheadings under other subjects), 10, 211
  • Burma, relations with, 94
  • Cambodia, 265–266, 322, 345, 355, 360, 368
  • China, People’s Republic of, 86–87, 182, 188, 190–192, 368
  • Pakistan, relations with, 10, 85, 88–89, 92–93, 190
  • Thailand, relations with, 90, 359
  • Tibet, 86–87
  • United States, relations with, 92, 136, 658
• Indochina (see also Cambodia; Laos; Vietnam, Republic of; Vietnamese Democratic Republic), 14
• Indonesia (see also Indonesian subheadings under other subjects), 120
  • Antara, 290
  • arms purchases, 71–73
  • Australia, relations with, 71, 86
  • British military aid to, 168, 198
  • Cambodia, relations with, 345
  • China, Republic of, relations with, 41
  • Chinese community in, 67
  • communism, 9, 14, 19, 21, 88, 198–199
  • Communist party (PKI), 88, 169, 188, 191, 199
  • France, relations with, 71
  • Japan, relations with, 67
  • Korea, Republic of, relations with, 41
  • military situation, 39, 71, 87, 168
  • New Guinea conflict, 49, 56–57, 69, 71–73, 86–88, 168–169, 189, 191, 196–199
  • Philippines, relations with, 196
  • political situation, 22, 23n
    • Australian position, 21, 22n
    • British position, 19, 22n, 191
    • French position, 22n
    • New Zealand position, 12, 22n, 189
    • Pakistani position, 10, 22n
    • Thai position, 9, 22n, 88, 198–199
    • Philippine position, 11, 88
    • U.S. position, 22n, 24, 88, 169
  • Soviet military and economic aid to, 196
  • territorial waters dispute, 10, 12, 19
  • Thailand, relations with, 90
  • U.S. military and economic aid to, 196, 366
• Inpeng, 513, 681, 775–776, 784, 829, 855, 910, 936, 964, 968
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), 43, 334
• International Control Commission (ICC) (see also Geneva Accords; ICC sub-headings under other subjects), 232, 238, 407
• International Cooperation Administration (ICA), 390–391, 424, 485, 495, 662–665, 744, 779
• International Court of Justice (ICJ), 89, 196, 199–200, 353, 358, 380, 993
• International Development Association, 43
• International Monetary Fund (IMF), 43, 334
• Iraq, 99
• Irwin, John N., II, 57, 75n, 77n, 528n, 597n, 602n, 611, 999n
  • ANZUS military planning, 54–56, 58
  • Cambodia, 231, 387, 400–401
  • Laos, 485, 576, 847n, 896, 902, 948
    • military situation, 568, 570–571, 836, 882, 914, 931, 938, 940, 983
    • U.S. military aid to, 207–208, 525, 613, 616, 618, 634, 904, 906–908, 933–934
    • U.S. special mission to, 888–890, 893n, 897, 899, 902, 904, 908, 912, 920
• Isham, Heyward, 592
• Italy, 599, 605–606
• Jackson, C.D., 43
• Jacquinot, Louis, 85, 90–91
• Jani, Col., 168
• Jantzen, Robert J., 783, 887n, 891, 928–929
• Japan, 54, 56, 65–67, 135
  • Cambodia, 322, 368
  • China, People’s Republic of, 66–67, 192, 322
  • China, Republic of, relations with, 25
  • Korea, Republic of, relations with, 65
  • Laos, 595, 603, 605
  • Southeast Asia, 58, 135, 141, 211
  • United States, relations with, 41–42, 136, 139
• Jebb, Sir Gladwyn, 170
• Jenkins, Alfred leS., 114n, 179n, 187n, 244, 258n, 313n, 315n, 329, 460n, 472n, 521n, 592, 598n
  • Cambodia, 246–247
  • Laos, 479, 532n
• Johnson, Gen., 783
• Johnson, Robert H., 4n, 203n, 560, 808n, 897n, 920n, 940
• Johnson, U. Alexis, 19n, 78, 187n, 190n, 194n
  • Cambodia, 273n, 307, 310, 346, 348, 361, 373, 375, 380
  • Laos, 110–113, 772, 871, 875n, 888, 954n
    • political situation, 950n, 953, 955n, 956n, 971n
    • SEATO role, 74, 104–105, 227n
    • Thailand, relations with, 735–736, 739–740, 865–866
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 84n, 87, 103n, 113–114, 130, 174, 176–178
  • Thai-U.S. consultation, 354n
  • Vietnam, Republic of-Thai relations, 347
• Johnston, Maj. Howard J., 791–792
• Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S., 95–96, 203n, 208, 987–988
  • Cambodia, 248–249, 324n
  • Far East, 3, 114–115, 117–119, 122–124
  • Laos, 579, 790, 866
    • military situation, 785, 796n, 812–813, 835–836, 846–847
    • political situation, 504n, 535n, 869–871, 877, 886–888, 1006–1007
    • U.S. military aid to, 528, 565, 572, 933–934, 974, 1017–1018
      • Phoumi forces, 868–869, 879–880, 983n, 988, 993
  • Pathet Lao, 588–589, 592, 594–598, 600, 608–609, 612–613, 615, 876
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 114n
• Jones, Howard P., 73, 94, 128n, 190n, 348
• Jones, J. Jefferson, 423n, 429n, 592
• Jordan, 627n
• Jorgensen, Gordon L., 817
• Jorzick, Elizabeth, 362n
• Joxe, Louis, 318, 526n, 534
• Katay Don Sasorith, 434–435, 468–469, 471n, 473–474, 489, 696, 703, 706
  • political situation in Laos, 438, 440–441, 444, 447–448, 449n, 450, 456, 486–487, 650, 657
  • U.S. military and economic aid to Laos, 446, 495, 734
• Kellogg, Edmund H., 44, 228–229, 302n
• Kent State University, 384
• Keo Viphakone, 411, 681, 730, 775, 776
• Kham Lorn, Capt., 946
• Khamking Souvanlasy, 802, 935
• Khamphan Panya, 160, 501, 510, 516, 800, 812n, 994, 996–997
  • Cabinet role for, 463, 468, 474, 728, 775–776
  • defense of Laos, 146, 155, 696
  • military situation in Laos, Dec. 1959 coup d’état, 703, 706, 723
  • political situation in Laos, 486, 690, 767, 957, 963
    • conservative coalition attempts, 756, 758–759, 761n
    • factionalism, 666n, 681, 691, 697
    • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 807, 842, 952, 977
  • U.N. role in Laos, 227, 557n, 578, 587n
  • U.S. military and economic aid to Laos, 506n, 521, 772n
  • visit to United States, 628–629, 644, 646
• Khamsing, 944
• Khamsouk, 775
• Khan, Mohammed Asgar, 79
• Khoranhok, 463, 486
• Khrushchev, Nikita S., 67–68, 152, 179–180, 383–385, 409, 568, 582, 598
  • Laos, 590–591, 1021, 1029
  • U.S.-Soviet relations, 185–186, 905
  • visit to the U.S., 192, 623n
• Kishi, Nobusuke, 66
• Knight, Robert H., 400–401, 534–535, 568, 588n, 592, 602n, 634, 853n
• Kocher, Eric, 69, 244, 253, 258n, 273n, 274, 278n, 281n, 285n, 293, 313n, 325n, 412, 420, 422, 423n, 429n, 439n, 441n, 448n, 451n, 470n, 472n, 481n, 484n, 505n, 508n, 512n, 521n, 523
  • Cambodia, 246n, 249–250, 267, 269, 297–300, 315–320
  • Laos, 438–439, 491–494, 525–527, 529–532
• Kohler, Foy D., 170
• Kong Le, 842, 881, 900, 910, 916, 925, 1021
  • arrest of, 921–923, 942–943, 954
  • coup d’état, Aug. 1960, 782, 787–788, 792, 802, 809–810
  • military situation in Laos, 805, 858, 859, 871, 961, 997–998
  • military strength of, 831, 874, 936, 999n, 1004
  • neutralization of, 916–917, 919, 922–927, 939, 945–947
  • Pathet Lao alliance, 803, 841, 852–853, 868, 870, 870–871, 874–876, 879, 934, 957
    • arms distribution, 822–823, 854
  • political role of, 803–804, 806–807, 819, 827, 849
  • political situation in Laos, 867, 870n, 873
  • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 814–815, 829–830, 832–833, 850–851, 855, 881, 883, 928
  • Soviet military aid to, 1015, 1017
  • U.S.-Lao relations, 830
  • U.S. special mission to Laos, 889
  • Vientiane, withdrawal from, 815n, 820–821, 855, 917, 1005
• Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of, 122–123, 138–140, 143, 193, 215
• Korea, Republic of (see also Korea, Republic of subheadings under other subjects), 6, 41, 65, 96, 122–123, 126, 139–140, 180, 207, 215, 276, 297
• Korean unification, 413, 416
• Kossamak, Queen, 239, 243, 257, 261, 264, 277, 279, 330n, 352, 387
• Kou Abhay, 717n, 821, 847, 861, 875, 975
  • government of, 728, 731–733, 756, 760, 761n, 767n
• Kou Voravong, 775
• Kouprasith Abhay, Col., 931, 943, 945, 956–957, 961, 991, 997–998
  • Phoumi, alliance with, 759, 951, 954, 958–959, 964, 967–969, 968–969, 972, 1001
• Ladejinsky, Wolf, 311, 344
• Lalouette, Roger, 312
• Landon, Kenneth, 801
• Landy, Pierre, 69, 293
• Laniel, Joseph C, 24
• Lansdale, Col. Edward G., 432, 507, 847, 938–939
• Lansdowne, Lord, 576n
• Lao Issara, 415, 418
• Lao Unilateral Declaration at Geneva, 527
• Laos (see also Pathet Lao; Laos and Laotian subheadings under other subjects), 4, 472
  • Australia, relations with, 110, 155, 164
  • auto-defense program, 430, 431n, 538n, 562–563, 566, 572n
  • Boun Oum government, Dec. 1960, 1006, 1008–1009, 1018–1019
    • British position, 1015, 1029
    • China, Republic of, position, 1023
    • French position, 1015, 1024, 1029
    • legitimization of, 1018, 1021, 1026–1029
    • Philippine position, 1023
    • Thai position, 1023
    • U.S. position, 1023
    • Vietnam, Republic of, position, 1023
  • Bountheng coup d’état, Nov. 1960, 951–953, 954n
  • Burma, relations with, 35, 165, 220, 518
  • burning of U.S. embassy, 1005
  • Cambodia, relations with, 204, 262, 336–337, 371–372, 415, 428, 528, 1021
  • Champassac secessionist state, 852
  • China, People’s Republic of, relations with, 414–415, 517, 519, 602, 787, 834, 1022
    • diplomatic recognition of, 797–798, 844
  • China, Republic of, relations with, 214, 834
  • Chinese community in, 834
  • Chinese Nationalist forces in, 537
  • Chinese People’s Republic economic aid to, 797
  • Chinese People’s Republic military aid to, 992
  • Civil Air Transport. See under U.S. military aid to below.
  • civil war. See Kong Le revolt; Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt; Souvanna government, Aug. 1960 below.
  • Committee for the Defense of National Interests (CDNI), 468–469, 484, 645, 671, 698–700, 747–749, 753, 937
    • British position, 764, 926n
    • coup d’état, Dec. 1959, 699–707, 709–712, 714–715, 717–721, 723–727
    • disunity among anti-communist factions, 535–536, 647, 649, 653–654, 659–662, 665–667, 681, 690–695
    • elections, general, 650–652, 655–656, 697, 729–731, 738, 752
    • establishment as political party, 755, 757–760, 762–763
    • formation of, 456–457, 460, 480
    • French position, 764
    • government role of, 472n, 486, 639–640
    • suppression of, 681–682
    • U.S. position, 513–514, 657, 676–677, 734
  • Committee for Neutrality and National Unity, 939, 942, 949, 1001
  • communism, 624–626, 861, 875, 884, 1013–1014
  • Communist party, banning of, 415
  • coup d’état, Dec. 1959, 722
    • Australian position, 724, 726
    • British position, 724, 726–727
    • French position, 724, 726–727
    • planning for, 701–702, 709–710, 712, 715, 717–719, 721
      • French position, 715, 717–718
      • Laotian position, 705–707, 720
      • U.S. involvement in, 699–700, 703–704, 707–708, 711, 713–714, 716–717
    • SEATO and, 726–727
  • coup d’état proposal, Nov. 1958, 490
  • death penalty for subversion, 415
  • defense of (see also internal security; SEATO membership; and SEATO role in defense of below), 588–589, 608–609, 612–613, 615
    • British position, 78, 153–154, 170–176, 548, 556–561, 593, 604–605, 637–638, 764–765
    • Pakistani position, 79, 152, 154
    • Philippine position, 152, 155, 577
    • tripartite declaration, 568
    • U.N. role, 148–149, 556–561, 586–587, 934
    • U.S. position, 148–149, 517–519, 573–575, 579–582, 590, 934
    • Vietnam, Republic of, role, 553
  • Defense–State Department conflicts, 986–988
  • elections, general, 483, 488, 650–652, 655–656, 697, 729–731, 738, 752
    • British position, 738, 747–748, 751
    • formation of new government, 774–777
    • French position, 188, 734, 738, 747–748, 751
    • gerrymandering, 737, 742
    • Laotian position, 483, 731–732, 737–738
    • postponement of, 483, 488, 650–656, 661, 732–733
    • two-stage elections, 694, 737
    • U.S. army role in, 740–741
    • U.S. position, 479, 485, 665, 667, 729–732, 747, 748n, 750–751, 754
  • elections, supplementary, 418–420, 422–423, 426, 428, 434–435, 505
    • Nationalist-Independent coalition, 417–418, 425–426, 434, 436, 443–445, 447–451, 454
    • psychological warfare, 427, 430, 432
    • results of, 439n, 441–442
    • U.S. economic aid and, 423–431, 437
    • U.S. post-election strategies, 438–441, 443–446
  • ethnic minorities, 570, 648, 671, 678–679, 698, 780
    • relations with national government, 180, 556, 574–575, 580, 637, 731, 770, 1029
    • U.N. proposals for, 743
  • evacuation of foreigners from, 814, 826, 898–899, 1005
  • France, relations with, 537, 633, 691, 814, 1022–1023
  • French economic aid to, 664
  • French military aid to, 159, 467, 476–477, 509–512, 514–516, 521, 640n, 777–778
  • French military forces in, 586–587, 618
  • French-U.S. cooperation in troop training, 203–204, 208, 523–532, 534–535, 542–544, 698
  • Geneva Accords:
    • Australian position, 85, 149
    • British position, 161
    • French position, 505–506
    • Laotian position, 451–452, 500, 647
    • U.S. military aid and, 428, 492–494, 496–499, 634
  • Geneva Conference proposal, 623, 629
  • independence struggle, 415
  • Independent party, 417–418, 425, 440, 443
  • India, relations with, 70, 647
  • internal security (see also defense of above), 159–160, 773, 779–781
  • International Control Commission, 985
    • Australian position, 149
    • British position, 475, 500, 503, 522, 538, 550, 552–553, 581, 1026
    • Canadian position, 475, 503, 522, 553, 589
    • Chinese People’s Republic position, 522
    • French position, 70, 475, 500, 503, 505–506, 553
    • Indian position, 504n, 522, 547, 553, 559, 574, 1026
    • Laotian position, 509
    • Polish position, 476–477, 574, 834
    • reactivation of, 70, 550, 553, 555, 559, 574, 589, 961, 1026
    • Sino-Soviet bloc position, 146, 536–538, 552, 561
    • Soviet position, 522, 523n, 574, 578, 1026
    • U.N. position, 679
    • U.S. military aid and, 207, 428, 437
    • U.S. position, 475–476, 553, 581, 676, 955, 961
    • Vietnamese Democratic Republic position, 522
    • withdrawal of, 427–428, 438, 451–452, 462, 476–477, 478, 834
  • joint Cambodian-Chinese People’s Republic statement on Laos, 408
  • Kong Le coup d’état, 788, 804, 810, 827, 890, 950n, 960
    • Philippine personnel in Vientiane, 788
    • Phoumi request for foreign assistance against, 782–785, 787–790, 791n, 792, 794–795, 799, 801
    • Thai position, 782–784, 794–795, 799, 801, 810
    • U.S. personnel in Vientiane, 788, 798n, 802
    • U.S. position, 785, 787–790, 791n, 792, 795, 826
  • Kouprasith coup d’état, Dec. 1960, 991, 997–998
  • Lao Horn Lao (LHL), 456–457, 468, 482–484, 486, 753, 937
    • British position, 764
    • conservative coalition attempts, 747–748, 755, 757–759
    • coup d’état, Dec. 1959, 707, 709–710, 717, 727
    • disunity among anti-communist factions, 514–515, 535, 647, 653–656, 660–662, 665–666, 677, 681, 690–694
    • elections, general, 488, 650–651, 729–738
    • French position, 764
    • government role, 639, 774
    • U.S. position, 513–514
  • Luang Prabang government, proposal for, 944, 948–950, 969–970, 977
    • Australian position, 965, 969, 1000
    • British position, 894, 898, 965, 968–969, 1000
    • exfiltration of deputies from Vientiane, 962, 964, 967, 968n, 976, 990, 992–993
    • French position, 894, 898, 965, 968–969
    • Laotian position, 896–898, 901
    • U.S. position, 885, 887, 894, 935–937, 944, 963, 966, 984, 1000
  • media relations, 628
  • military situation (see also coup d’état, Dec. 1959; Kong Le coup; Kouprasith coup d’état, Dec. 1960 above and Phoumi-Boun Oum revolt below), 146, 873
    • attack on U.S. plane, 1021
    • Australian position, 109, 715, 717–718, 810, 848, 863
    • British position, 109, 605, 715, 717–718, 788, 804, 810, 848, 863, 979, 1010–1011
    • Chinese People’s Republic intervention, 554
    • Chinese People’s Republic troops in, 548
    • conscription, 563, 566
    • force levels, 416, 536, 562, 570, 642
    • French position, 109, 528–529, 605, 788, 810, 827, 890, 950n, 960, 1010
    • morale levels, 599, 611
    • New Zealand position, 110, 810, 848, 863
    • Pakistani position, 109
    • Philippine position, 109, 788
    • Sam Neua activities of Pathet Lao, 145–146, 546–549, 551–554, 584–587, 596, 598–599, 602
      • Vietnamese Democratic Republic participation, 554
    • Thai position, 109, 782–784, 794–795, 799, 801, 810
    • U.S. observers, 607–608, 619
    • U.S. position, 108, 148, 555–556, 1010–1011, 1016–1017, 1019
    • Vientiane counterattack by communists, 1012
    • Vietnamese Democratic Republic intervention, 549, 551–552, 554, 559, 581
  • monetary reform, 481, 485–486
    • French position, 454–455
    • Laotian position, 418–420, 422
    • U.S. position, 414, 419–420, 422–423, 443, 454–458, 480–481, 676, 686
  • Montagnards. See ethnic minorities above.
  • National Bank, 455, 457
  • Nationalist party, 417–418, 425–427, 440, 443
  • Neo Lao Hak Xat (NLHX), 464, 480, 490, 498, 650, 693–694, 727, 1000
    • British position, 447, 637, 639–640
    • cabinet role for, 440, 442–445
    • elections, general, 493, 733, 739, 746, 752
    • elections, supplementary, 425, 436, 438, 441
    • exclusion from government, 440, 443–445, 447–448
    • French position, 447, 637, 639–640
    • government role for, 913, 949–950, 954–955, 961, 984
    • neutralism, 939, 946
    • prison break of leaders of, 537–540, 772–773
    • SEATO membership for Laos, 74
    • Sino-Soviet bloc, relations with Laos, 834
    • U.S. military aid and, 439
    • U.S. position, 440, 443–445, 447–448, 535–536, 539–540
  • neutralism, 517–518, 879, 881, 940
    • Australian position, 160–161
    • British position, 171, 191
    • U.S. position, 642, 938–939
  • Operation Brotherhood, 21, 164, 424, 429–430
  • PDSP, 774–775
  • Philippine economic aid to, 21, 164, 424, 429–430
  • Philippine military aid to, 476, 492, 509
  • Philippines, relations with, 35, 220
  • Phoui government, 1958, 488–490, 698–700
    • factional differences, 649–655, 659–662, 665–666, 671–672
    • special powers, 496, 499, 505, 650–652, 655, 665–666
    • U.S. position, 486–488, 656–657
  • Phoui government, 1960, U.S. proposal, 937
  • Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt, 814, 836–838, 858–859, 868, 874, 922, 932, 973
    • French position, 848, 863, 906, 979, 1011
    • Geneva Accords and, 906
    • Kong Le–Phoumi battles, 981–983, 985, 987, 991–992, 998, 1005
    • Luang Prabang, attack on, 958n, 963–964, 966, 968, 973–975, 982, 985, 988, 991
    • Souvanna request to the United States, 978–982, 989–990
    • Thai role in, 847, 1001
    • troop payments, 931, 957, 962, 969–970
    • U.N. action, 893–894, 899–900, 911–912, 920–921, 976, 979, 999, 1002
    • U.S. advisers, 887, 891, 904–905, 907–908
    • U.S. military aid to, 876–877, 879, 882, 887, 888n, 894, 974
    • U.S. position, 805–811, 818–820, 845–848, 850, 914, 917, 930–931, 1016
    • U.S. support for, 848, 915–916, 928–929, 930–933
    • Vientiane offensive, 794–796, 799–801, 805–806, 961, 968–969, 1005
  • political situation (see also Boun Oum government; elections, general-elections, supplementary; Luang Prabang government, proposal for; Phoui government, 1958 above and Somsanith government; Souvanna government below), 65, 660, 859
    • Assembly–Phoumi talks at Savannakhet, 981, 985
    • Australian position, 85–86, 724, 726, 830, 839, 871, 956
    • British position, 183, 461
    • cabinet crisis, 458, 460–463, 468–473
    • conservative coalition attempts, 693–694, 755–757, 759–761, 763–765, 767, 771–776
    • constitutional reform, 645, 647, 649–656, 661–662, 960
    • emergency powers, 84
    • factionalism, 649–655, 659–662, 665–667, 666n, 671–672, 681, 690–695, 697
    • French position, 20, 183, 460n, 461, 465, 809, 839, 841, 851, 871
    • generational conflicts, 667, 677, 680–681, 683
    • government by Royal decree, 462–465, 690, 869–871, 883–886, 877, 900–901, 904, 906, 910
    • King’s Council, 489
    • leftist detainees, 725–727, 733
    • military governments, 462, 750, 1003
    • military leaders meeting, Luang Prabang, 870, 883, 899
    • national assembly, expansion of, 844
    • national front government, 752–753
    • New Zealand position, 183, 186, 195, 201
    • Pakistani position, 10
    • paramilitary government, 900–901, 904, 906, 910
    • Philippine position, 11
    • Phoumi–Souvanna agreement, 806, 813–816, 822, 824, 826–828
    • Phoumi–Souvanna Phouma meetings, 896
    • political leaders meeting, 870, 873–874
    • revolutionary government, 960, 964, 967
    • Royal reconciliation proposal, 839–841, 849–851, 853–856
    • Souvanna Phouma–Phoui–Phoumi meeting, Luang Prabang, 952–960, 962–963
    • trials of dissident leaders, 648, 697–698, 701, 704, 708, 714
    • U.S. position, 158–159, 178–179, 504–505, 512–514, 535–536, 933
  • population figures, 418
  • prisoners, political, 537–540, 725–727, 733, 770, 772–773
  • Rally of the Lao People (RLP). See Lao Hom Lao (LHL) above.
  • reunification of, 413, 415–418
  • Royal Thai Police Aerial Resupply Unit (PARU), 112, 934
  • Santiphab, 425, 439n, 748, 752
  • SEATO membership for (see also defense of above), 74, 517–518
  • SEATO role in defense of (see also defense of above), 75, 77, 219, 439n, 481, 587, 762, 1029
    • Australian position, 148–150, 154, 160, 593, 621
    • Chinese People’s Republic position, 625
    • contingency planning, 104–105, 127–128, 170–171
    • counterinsurgency force, 81, 83, 93–94, 103–105, 112–113
    • factfinding mission, 106–107, 593–594, 596
    • French position, 150–151, 170, 172, 175–178, 553, 604–605, 621, 637–638
    • Laotian position, 507, 586–587, 604, 607
    • military planning, 70, 146–155, 161–167, 207
    • Thai position, 110–113, 152–154, 553, 582, 604, 607, 611, 621, 1016
    • U.N. position, 582
    • U.S. position, 548, 553, 572, 581–582, 617, 635, 687, 695–696, 934, 1009, 1016
    • Vietnamese Democratic Republic position, 625
  • Seno base, 529, 603, 890, 931
    • defense role, 546, 586, 595
    • French command of, 510–512, 514–515, 521n, 523, 525, 537, 642
  • separatist movements, 832, 839, 852, 855–856, 862, 874
  • Sino-Soviet Bloc relations with, 519
  • Somsanith government, resignation, 790–791, 793–794, 795n, 800, 816
  • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 807, 812, 871, 881, 883–886, 1004–1005
    • establishment of, 797–798, 800, 802, 804, 806n, 808
    • French position, 814, 830, 844, 950, 956
    • Indian position, 844
    • Thai position, 830, 844
    • U.N. position, 844
    • U.S. military aid to, 886–887
    • U.S. position, 813, 816, 818–819, 830, 841–845, 851–853, 858, 876–878, 909–912, 926–930
    • U.S. support, conditions for, 886–888, 934–936
    • Vietnam, Republic of, position, 830, 844
  • Soviet economic aid to, 909, 982, 1000n
  • Soviet intervention in, 1010–1011, 1016–1017, 1019
  • Soviet military aid to, 992, 1003–1004
  • Soviet Union, relations with,edh, 560, 834, 942
    • exchange of ambassadors, 834, 844, 868, 881, 893, 895, 898, 902
  • Soviet-U.S. countercharges of interference in, 1007, 1010–1011, 1014–1020, 1023
  • Syndicat des Fonctionnaires, 943
  • Thai military aid to, 800–801, 934, 1006–1009, 1011, 1017
  • Thailand, relations with, 35, 220, 415, 447, 735–736, 738–741, 826, 833, 865–866, 933, 949n, 1011
    • border blockade, 864–865
    • defense cooperation, 568
    • Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt, 840, 852, 863–864, 896
    • recall of Thai nationals, 898–899
    • U.N. position, 736, 740
  • tripartite talks, 600, 604–605, 622, 627–628, 981, 1015
  • U.N. economic aid to, 680, 688–689, 696
  • U.N. role, 106–108, 160, 542, 567n, 673, 857
    • British position, 106, 548, 577, 598
    • Chinese People’s Republic position, 625
    • factfinding mission, 147–154, 158, 170–171, 611, 613–615, 639, 649
    • French position, 105n
    • Hammarskjöld visit, 646, 658, 678–680
    • Laotian position, 636, 691
    • long-term presence, 627–629, 631–633, 635–636, 641–644
    • New Zealand position, 195
    • observers, 577–578
    • Philippine position, 155
    • SEATO position, 640–641
    • Souvanna appeal to, 985, 993
    • Soviet position, 561, 578, 598, 605–606, 608, 627, 629, 631n, 632
    • U.N. troops, 590
    • U.S. position, 106–107, 220, 348, 548, 581, 641–642, 687
    • Vietnamese Democratic Republic position, 625
  • United Kingdom, relations with, 814
  • United States, relations with, 411–419, 440–441, 768–771, 814, 866, 888
    • boundary guarantees, 517–519
    • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 828–829
  • U.S.-British talks re, 167, 576–577
  • U.S. economic aid to, 446, 449, 662–665, 668–669, 671–673, 829n
    • conflicts within the aid program, 656–657, 683–687, 695
    • “Operation Booster Shot,” 435, 437, 479
    • road and airport construction, 446, 509, 657, 670–674, 695
  • U.S. military aid to (see also U.S. military forces in below), 689, 1006
    • air transport, 538n, 785, 787–789, 810–811
    • Australian position, 160
    • British position, 493, 502–503, 504n, 531–532, 543, 545, 634, 635n, 857
    • Cambodian position, 383
    • Canadian position, 493–494, 498, 502–503, 543
    • Chinese People’s Republic position, 531
    • Civil Air Transport, 785, 787–789, 791n, 792n, 854n, 868, 966, 1006
      • Luang Prabang forces, 979, 981–982, 985
      • Phoumi airlift, 973–974, 976, 993, 999–1004
    • elections and, 430–433, 479
    • French position, 428, 499, 501–503, 634, 635n, 857
    • Geneva Accords, 492–494, 496–498, 505–506, 508–509, 543, 614
    • Indian position, 493–494, 531, 543–544, 634, 635n, 857, 976, 979
    • international consequences, possible, 909–912, 915–916, 968–970
    • MAAG, 453, 466–467, 475–478, 501, 543, 589, 595, 612, 614
    • medical supplies, 1007, 1011
    • Pathet Lao advances and, 554–555
    • radio transmitters, 778, 785, 792, 795, 799–800, 905–908
    • reconnaissance, 1007, 1012
    • rival recipients of, 886–887
    • Soviet position, 493, 634–635
    • supervision of Filipino technicians, 509
    • support for all anti-communist forces, 911n, 913–918, 919–920, 928–929
    • suspension of, 454n, 457n, 480, 870–872, 884, 889–890
    • troop payments, 495, 809, 816, 820, 822–823, 830, 1008n, 1009
    • troop training, 159, 452–453, 475–477, 491–494, 543–545, 616–619, 634–635, 777–778
  • U.S. military forces in, 171, 586–589, 593–595, 601–603, 608–609, 625–626, 1025
  • U.S. policy toward, 35, 219–220, 779, 804–806, 910–911, 915–918, 920–922
    • Defense-State Department conflicts, 986–988
    • international criticism of, 658–659
  • U.S. special mission to, 888–889, 891–892, 893n, 895–897, 899–904, 908, 914–915
  • Vietnam, Republic of, military aid to, 572
  • Vietnam, Republic of, military forces in, 595, 611
  • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 35, 161, 322, 415, 447, 449n, 834, 852, 894, 1029
  • Vietnamese community in, 834
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic intervention in, 414–415, 609n, 933
    • British position, 623–624
    • French position, 69–70, 623
    • SEATO position, 93
    • Soviet position, 552
    • Thai position, 84
    • U.S. position, 107–109, 901
    • Vietnam, Republic of, position, 569
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic military aid to, 613
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic relations with, 37, 550–551, 642, 750, 798, 834, 844
  • Youth Movement, 943
• Laos Cease-Fire Agreement, 527
• Laskey, Denis, 127, 627
• Lay, James S., Jr., 1n, 27, 133
• Lebanon, 41, 198
• Lee Kwan Yew, 157–158
• Lemnitzer, Gen. Lyman L., 613, 999n
  • Laos, 616–619, 882, 886, 889–890, 948, 1016
    • military situation, 810–811, 836, 893–894, 997–998
    • U.S. special mission, 889–890
  • Pathet Lao, 1024–1029
• Leuam Insisiengmay, 411, 419–420, 422–423, 455–457, 463, 468, 639, 681, 775, 862
• Liep, 486, 639
• Lincoln, Anthony H., 556n, 557n, 566, 726n
• Lincoln, Katherine, 680
• Lippmann, Walter S., 67
• Liu Shao-ch’i, 409
• Lloyd, Selwyn, 6, 19–22, 24, 161, 198, 365, 549–552
  • Laos, 127–128, 169–171, 175–176, 191, 576–577, 622, 627–628
• Lodge, Henry Cabot, 552, 605, 614, 641, 643, 678n, 742
• Lon Nol, 232, 247, 345n, 348, 353, 380, 388, 390–393
• Looram, Matthew J., Jr., 325n
• Loren, Elbert A., 457
• Luang Swasdi Kolayud, 79n
• Luang Wichit Wadakan, 783
• Lucet, Charles, 69, 293, 523, 864
• Ludlow, James M., 592
• Luns, Joseph M.A.H., 71, 168–169
• MacDermot, Dermot, 130–131, 172–174
• Macdonald, Malcolm, 375–376, 381
• Macmillan, Harold, 38–41, 59, 85, 576–577, 1027
• Macomber, William D., 170, 592
• Magsaysay, Ramon, 65, 165
• Mainland Southeast Asia. See Southeast Asia.
• Malaya, 19, 26–27, 36–37, 37, 189, 221, 322, 569, 580
  • Cambodia, relations with, 345
  • China, People’s Republic of, relations with, 215
  • China, Republic of, relations with, 214
  • communism, 37, 153, 164–165, 171
  • Laos, relations with, 220
  • Pakistan, relations with, 9
  • political situation, 13, 191
  • Singapore, relations with, 157–158
  • Thailand, relations with, 9, 90, 188
• Malik, Yakov, 561, 576
• Manac’h, Etienne M., 777n
• Manila Pact. See Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty.
• Mansfield, Mike, 95n, 96, 1021–1022
• Mao Tse-tung, 125, 249n, 255
• Martin, Graham, 114, 568
• Matsu, 58n
• Matsui, Victor M., 356
• Mau. See Vu Van Mau.
• McBride, Philip, 55n
• McBride, Robert H., 69, 73, 293, 777
• McCone, John A., 118, 205–208
• McCrea, Col., 922n, 963n
• McElhiney, Thomas, 590
• McElroy, Neil H., 98–99, 117–121, 124, 588, 602n, 606n, 610–611, 613
  • Cambodia, U.S. actions toward, 248
  • U.S. troop training in Laos, 616–617, 619–621
• Mein, John Gordon, 156
• Mekong River Basin, 34, 217, 219
• Mendenhall, Joseph A., 244, 246n, 249n, 250n, 253, 258n, 315n, 325n
• Menzies, Robert G., 168, 187, 196–197, 200–201
• Merchant, Livingston T., 127, 716n, 789n, 828n, 848n, 891n, 915n, 941n, 949n, 963n, 971n, 973, 984n, 987n, 989n, 996n, 999n, 1002n, 1019n, 1022n, 1404
  • Cambodia, U.S. military aid to, 392, 395n, 397n, 400–402, 404
  • Defense–State Department conflicts, 986
  • Laos, 170–171, 576, 627, 864, 893–894, 934, 981, 1010
    • military situation, 567, 785, 788, 836, 863, 876, 983–984
    • political situation, 741–742, 766, 831–832, 886, 933, 948
    • U.S. military aid to, 868–869, 974, 1006
  • Pathet Lao, 881, 1024, 1026–1029
• Methven, Stuart E., 975, 994
• Military dictatorships. See Dictatorships.
• Miller, Dudley, 45n
• Miller, R.M., 110
• Millet, Pierre, 176n, 532
• Minnich, L.A., Jr., 25n
• Missile testing, 57–58
• Mladek, Jan, 420
• Monireth, Prince, 247, 257, 261–264, 266, 271, 352, 387
• Moore, Charles R., 367–369, 372n
• Moyer, Raymond T., 424
• Mueller, Frederick H., 633
• Murphy, Robert D., 69–73, 103n, 128n, 542, 560n, 611, 630
  • Laos, 573, 579, 590, 614–615, 641
    • military situation, 567–572, 582–584, 592–598, 612–613
    • tripartite talks, 600, 604–605, 622, 637
    • U.S. military aid to, 562n, 564, 616, 618–621, 634–635
• Mutual Security Program, U.S., 16–17, 507, 515
• Narasimhan, 743
• Nash, Frank C., 60
• Nash, Walter, 6, 18, 88, 158–160, 184–186
  • China, People’s Republic of, 92, 185, 192, 194–195, 199–201, 202n
  • four-power military planning, 40
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 12–13, 21–22, 189–190
    • military planning, 40, 46, 49–52, 130n, 163–167, 175, 183–183, 194–195, 198
• Nasution, Gen. Abdul Haris, 88, 98, 169
• National Intelligence Estimates:
  • NIE 13–59, 116
  • NIE 67–59, 324–325
  • NIE 68–59, 535–537
• National Security Council (NSC), 1–5, 61, 375
  • actions:
    • No. 1506, 1–3
    • No. 1826, 26
    • No. 1853, 3
    • No. 1885, 26
    • No. 2098, 102
    • No. 2128, 125, 133
    • No. 2193, 179, 203, 209
    • No. 2324, 1014
    • No. 2357, 1016
    • No. 2267, 208–210, 399, 403
  • documents:
    • NSC 5429/2, 4
    • NSC 5429/5, 4, 97, 115–116, 133
    • NSC 5506, 1–5
    • NSC 5602/1, 1–2
    • NSC 5612/1, 26–27
    • NSC 5701, 97
    • NSC 5707/8, 1–2
    • NSC 5713/2, 224, 225n
    • NSC 5723, 126
    • NSC 5809, 26–38, 97, 178–179, 203, 208–210, 779
    • NSC 5820/1, 97
    • NSC 5906/1, 117–118, 120
    • NSC 5923, 114–126, 133
    • NSC 5923/1, 126, 133–144
    • NSC 6022, 209–229, 377, 392, 779, 920, 1014
  • meetings, 485
    • Dec. 6, 1957, 26n
    • Jan. 30, 1958, 2–3
    • 337th, Aug. 21, 1958, 474
    • 392d, Dec. 23, 1958, 491
    • 393d, Jan. 15, 1959, 498–499
    • 407th, May 21, 1959, 537–538
    • 408th, May 28, 1959, 538
    • 410th, June 18, 1959, 97–102
    • 425th, July 30, 1959, 546
    • 426th, Aug. 6, 1959, 552–553
    • 417th, Aug. 18, 1959, 559–560
    • 418th, Sept. 10, 1959, 611–613
    • 419th, Sept. 27, 1959, 116–127, 133
    • 420th, Oct. 1, 1959, 633
    • 429th, Dec. 16, 1959, 698
    • 436th, Mar. 10, 1960, 178–179
    • 437th, Mar. 17, 1960, 745–746
    • 442d, Apr. 28, 1960, 752
    • 446th, May 31, 1960, 776
    • 452d, July 21, 1960, 203–210, 210, 375, 377
    • 455th, Aug. 12, 1960, 785, 787–789
    • 456th, Aug. 18, 1960, 808–811
    • 458th, Sept. 7, 1960, 833
    • 459th, Sept. 15, 1960, 845–846
    • 460th, Sept. 21, 1960, 859–860
    • 461st, Sept. 29, 1960, 867–868
    • 462d, Oct. 6, 1960, 880–881
    • 463d, Oct. 13, 1960, 897–899
    • 464th, Oct. 20, 1960, 920–922
    • 465th, Oct. 31, 1960, 938
    • 466th, Nov. 7, 1960, 939–940
    • 468th, Dec. 1, 1960, 982–983
    • 470th, Dec. 20, 1960, 1014–1016
    • 472d, Dec. 29, 1960, 1021–1022
• Nationalism, 135–136
• Navy, U.S. Department of the, 324n
• Ne Win, 94, 165, 205, 347, 736
• Nehru, Jawaharlal, 23, 94, 188, 249n, 541, 547n, 552, 571, 743
• Nepal, 182
• Netherlands, 71, 88, 120, 168, 191, 196
• Neutralism (see also under Laos; Cambodia), 11, 30–31
• New Guinea, 49, 56–57, 69, 71–73, 86–88, 168–169, 189, 191, 196–199
• New Zealand (see also ANZUS; New Zealand subheadings under other subjects), 12, 13, 18, 20, 55, 92, 184, 186, 189, 195, 201, 223–225
  • Chinese community in, 200–201
• Newlin, Michael H., 558n, 578n
• Ngo Dinh Diem, 9, 115, 276, 347, 588n, 892
  • Cambodia, 234–237, 239, 245, 256, 286–287, 294, 296–297, 322
    • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 310–312, 314, 316, 325n, 332, 335–338, 342–344
  • Laos, 572, 595n, 944, 1029
  • Vietnam, Republic of, 65, 189, 263–264, 271, 439
• Ngo Dinh Nhu, 234, 243, 255, 257–258, 260–265, 316, 325, 336, 343n
• Ngo Trong Hieu, 277–278, 286, 291n, 331
• Ngon Sananikone, 411, 418, 422, 943, 991
  • political situation in Laos, 456, 463, 468, 728, 737, 752n, 775–776
• Nguyen Ngoc Tho, 310, 327n, 344, 348
• Nhiek Tioulong, 325n, 327n, 351–352, 369, 388
• Nhouy Abhay, 728, 731–733, 734, 737–738, 747, 753, 756, 775
• Nhu. See Ngo Dinh Nhu.
• Nicaragua, 102
• Nixon, Richard M., 25, 101, 118, 124, 187n
  • Laos, U.S. military and economic aid to, 420
• Non-alignment. See Neutralism.
• Nong Kimny, 253, 259, 267–269, 274, 313n, 328n
  • China, People’s Republic of, 240n
  • U.S.-Cambodian relations, 333, 357n, 362, 380, 390, 393, 406
• North Atlantic Council Ministerial Meeting, 169n
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 6, 17, 45–46, 73, 82, 181, 193, 202
• North Borneo, 60, 82
• Nouhak Phoumsavan, 862
• Nouphat Chounramany, 456, 473, 644, 728, 730, 734, 737
• Nouphat Sisouk, 440, 463, 486, 628n, 641n, 681, 775
• Nu, U, 19, 204–205, 249n
• Nuclear testing, 192, 198
• Nuclear war, 48–49
• Nuclear weapons, 21, 114, 116, 134, 181, 189, 226
• O’Connor, Jeremiah J., 484n
• O’Donnell, Rear Adm. Edward J., 534, 592, 740n, 886n, 889, 890, 915n
• Oganesoff, Igor, 471
• Ohly, John C., 429n
• Okinawa, 49, 65, 595, 603
• O’Neill, Con D.W., 170
• Operations Coordinating Board (OCB), 3, 5, 27, 133, 223, 225n, 392, 396–400
  • Laos, 454, 466, 474, 479, 484–485, 801n
  • Progress Report on Southeast Asia, 612
• Organization of American States, 17
• Ormsby-Gore, David, 170
• Ortoli, Vice Adm. d’Escadre Paul, 79n, 586n
• O’Sullivan, James, 69
• Ou Voravong, 855, 936, 964
• Ouan Ratrikoun, Brig. Gen., 111, 468, 583, 725–726, 805n, 827, 921, 928, 931, 967
  • Laos:
    • coup d’etat, Dec. 1959, 702–703, 705–706, 709, 711–712, 714–715, 719, 722
    • Kong Le coup, 783, 788, 791, 818, 820, 874, 923–925, 945
    • Luang Prabang government, proposal, 887, 901, 935–937, 954, 957–959, 961, 963–965, 971
    • military situation, 859, 898, 938, 951, 974n
    • political situation, 440, 465n, 681, 766–767, 770, 833, 867
    • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 807, 816, 847, 853, 855, 977
    • U.S. military aid, 467, 723, 727, 826, 830n, 844, 876, 913, 929
  • Pathet Lao, 841, 943
• Oudom Souvannavong, 440, 958
• Oudone Sananikone, Col., 440, 469–470, 705–706
• Oudong Souvannavong, 728
• Oun Heuan Norasing, Gen., 426n, 456, 775, 943
• Ounthone, 706
• Ourot Souvannavong. See Souvannavong, Ourot.
• Outer Mongolia, 118–119, 193, 393
• Overseas Chinese. See Chinese community subheadings under individual countries.
• Pacific Charter, 11
• Pacific Military Defense College, 7
• Pakistan, 10, 53, 60, 85, 88–89, 92–93, 190, 200, 651, 682, 736
• Palmer, Gardner E., 229n, 244, 252n
• Palmer, Gen. Williston B., 872
• Pan, 486, 639
• Panchen Lama, 85n
• Paris summit meeting, 1960, 179n, 181, 184–186, 192
• Parrott, Tom, 882
• Parsons, J. Graham, 61n, 75n, 95n, 103n, 106n, 229n, 246n, 278n, 285n, 297n, 300n, 325n, 339, 359n, 393n, 436n, 438n, 439n, 441n, 448n, 451n, 470n, 472n, 481n, 508n, 512n, 521n, 529n, 547n, 554n, 556n, 578n, 601n, 611, 641n, 646n, 665n, 701n, 707n, 708n, 709, 717n, 720n, 732n, 740n, 752n, 757n, 766n, 772n, 786n, 789n, 794n, 806n, 818n, 184n, 820n, 828n, 829n, 831n, 833n, 839n, 848n, 941n, 949n, 953n, 954n, 958n, 963n, 984n, 989n, 999n, 187n, 209n, 1000n, 1002, 1019n, 1022n
  • Cambodia, 228n, 267, 313n, 333, 344, 348–349, 356, 362, 363n, 387
    • coup plots, 281–282, 306–307, 309–310, 335
    • U.S. military and economic aid to, 339, 376–378, 389, 394, 404–405
    • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 237–239, 311–313, 315–316, 319
  • China, People’s Republic of, 244
  • Defense–State Department conflicts, 986–988
  • Far East, 114–115, 179–182
  • France, 317, 545, 777
  • Indonesia, 71–73
  • Laos, 69–70, 167, 227, 637, 864, 994–997
    • defense of, 518n, 573, 590, 612–615, 622
    • elections, general, 729, 731, 741–742, 748n, 750–751
    • elections, supplementary, 434, 435n, 505
    • military situation, 567–572, 582–584, 592–593, 595, 598, 608–609, 782, 795–798
    • monetary reform, 422, 484–485
    • Phoumi-Boun Oum revolt, 805n, 835–836, 863, 876, 915, 940, 978n, 979n, 983
    • political situation, 158–160, 461, 504–505, 657, 754, 930, 934, 966, 970, 1018–1019
    • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 548, 851–853, 927, 950, 999n
    • Soviet Union, relations with, 895–896, 902, 1010, 1016
    • Thailand, relations with, 734–735, 738
    • U.N. role, 560–561, 627–628, 678n, 688
    • United States, relations with, 411, 866, 888–891, 893n, 897, 899–902, 920
    • U.S. economic aid to, 423–424, 430, 656–657, 675–677, 683–685
    • U.S. military aid to, 562–564, 823, 857, 900–901, 904–908, 913, 934, 1006
    • U.S. policy toward, 579, 658, 804, 908–912
    • U.S. troop training, 527, 545, 616, 618–620, 777
  • Pathet Lao, 532n, 915n, 1024, 1028
  • press leaks, 93
  • Sihanouk–Diem talks, 329
  • Singapore, 157
  • Southeast Asia, 334, 635–636
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 77n, 84, 127–128, 164, 172–176, 202n, 227
• Passman, Otto, 449, 468
• Passport travel restrictions, 119–120, 139
• Pathet Lao (see also Laos), 13, 19, 65, 415, 579–580, 624–626, 790, 836, 839, 892, 984, 998
  • Chinese People’s Republic military aid to, 573–574, 781
  • coalition goverment with Souvanna Phouma, 972, 981, 984, 992, 1015
  • communist nature of, 413, 415–418, 484, 884, 895
  • elections, 419, 423, 429, 650, 746
  • force levels, 417–418, 588n, 780
  • forces integration, 146, 416–418, 532–533, 537–538, 541–542
  • Kong Le alliance, 803, 822–823, 852–853, 870, 841, 925, 926, 934, 957
    • actions against Phoumi forces, 868, 870–871, 874–876, 879
    • arms distribution, 822–823, 854
  • Luang Prabang, attack on, 958n, 964, 966, 968, 973–975, 982, 985, 988, 991, 1004, 1008
  • military situation in Laos, 566, 745–746, 849, 868, 899–900, 1012, 1024–1029
  • military strength of, 203, 883, 885
  • Pakistani position, 10
  • Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt, 839–840, 906, 950, 954–955, 961
  • political situation in Laos, 464, 952–953, 956–959
  • Sam Neua activities, 145–146, 546–549, 551–554, 582–587, 596, 598–599, 602
  • Sino-Soviet bloc military aid to, 1015–1016, 1018, 1021
  • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 831, 843–844, 874, 893, 919, 960, 963, 976
  • Souvanna Phouma, negotiations with, 833, 878n, 880–921, 938, 942–943
  • U.N. factfinding mission report, 649
  • U.S. policies toward, 910–911
  • Vientiane, presence in, 854, 862, 883, 910, 924, 936, 940, 946–947, 951
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic military aid to, 573–574, 780–781, 867, 905, 999n
    • French position, 150
    • Logistical support, 867
    • U.S. position, 158, 160, 180, 583
• Peng Norinder, 972
• Penn Nouth, 242, 264, 351, 353
• Permanent Court of Arbitration, 358
• Persons, Maj. Gen. Wilton B., 25, 708, 1024
• Peters, Richard B., 59–61
• Petsarath, Prince, 445
• Phagna Khammao, 456
• Pheng Phongsavan, 456, 489, 730, 765, 942
• Pheng Wong Savan, 703
• Philippines (see also Philippine subheadings under other subjects), 11, 53, 65, 95, 100, 139, 322
  • Chinese community in, 195
  • Chinese People’s Republic relations with, 195–196
  • Indonesia, relations with, 196
  • military planning, 60, 80, 83
• Phoui Sananikone, 74, 149, 167, 456, 485n, 496, 499–501, 532–533, 696, 941
  • cabinet role for, 468, 944
  • coup d’état, Dec. 1959, 701, 703–706, 710, 715, 717–721, 723
  • defense of Laos, 154, 480–481, 518, 583
  • elections, general, 737, 747, 748n, 749, 763, 765
  • elections, supplementary, formation of new government, 440, 444, 449n
  • French-Lao relations, 509–512, 514–516, 544, 633
  • leadership role of King Savang, 975–976, 994, 996–997
  • Luang Prabang government, proposal for, 935–938, 948, 952–953, 964, 968, 971–972, 980, 982
  • political situation in Laos, 488–490, 512–514, 573, 698–700, 730, 734, 753, 992
    • constitutional reform, 645, 650
    • factional differences, 651, 653, 659–662, 672, 680–683, 691–694, 697
  • Prime Minister role, 474, 639–640, 657, 677, 727, 763, 765, 770, 949–950, 953, 966
  • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 940, 950, 977
  • special governmental powers for, 496, 499, 505, 650–652, 655, 665–666
  • United Nations, 556n, 557n, 641n, 643n
  • U.S. economic aid to Laos, 664, 668
  • U.S.-Lao relations, 646–648
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 495, 506n, 544, 974
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic, relations with, Border incidents, 496, 499
  • visit to the United States, 158, 643–644, 646, 658n
• Phoumi Nosavan, Brig. Gen., 342–343, 595n, 644–645, 691, 750, 772, 895
  • Boun Oum government, Dec. 1960, 1021–1023
  • cabinet role for, 444, 463, 468, 706, 775–776, 1004
  • coup d’état, Dec. 1959, 714n, 717, 720n, 721–723, 724n
  • elections, general, 737–740, 747, 749, 767, 773–775
  • French-Lao relations, 890
  • Kong Le coup, 782, 923–925
    • request for foreign assistance against, 783–785, 787, 791–792, 796
  • leadership role of King Savang, 975, 996
  • Luang Prabang government, proposal for, 935–937, 948–950, 964, 968, 971, 980, 982
  • military situation in Laos, 567, 951, 997–998, 1001
    • Paksane battles, 859, 868, 998
    • Pathet Lao–Souvanna attack on Luang Prabang, 974n, 975
  • neutralism in Laos, 879, 881
  • Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt, 794–796, 799–801, 803, 812–814, 818–820, 836–838, 842–844, 863–864, 914, 940
  • political situation in Laos, 183, 690, 730, 753, 806, 813–816, 824, 826–828, 878n, 972
    • factionalism, 666n, 668, 671–672, 681
    • military leaders meeting, 860–863, 865–867
    • military role in government, 762–764, 766–767, 770–771, 774–776
    • political leaders meeting, 873–874
  • Somsanith government, resignation of, 790–791, 793–794, 795n, 800, 816
  • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 807, 829, 849n, 850–851, 873, 875, 932, 938, 977
  • Thai-Lao relations, 111, 738–741
  • U.N. role in Laos, 736
  • U.S. economic aid to Laos, 772n
  • U.S.-Lao relations, 889–892, 933
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 529, 823–826, 872, 911n, 913–914, 916, 990
• Phoumi Vongvichit, 852, 857, 862
• Picher, Lt. Gen. Oliver S., 96, 579
• Pineau, Christian, 6, 20, 22
• Plimsoll, 44
• Poland, 229
• Pote Sarasin, 94, 103n, 108, 110–111, 147–156, 165, 604, 607, 878n
• Prapat, 359
• Press leaks, 93–94, 129, 132, 163–164
• Price, C. Hoyt, 229n, 232n, 246n
• Price, William H., 420
• Prince, Edward P., 156n, 223
• Public Roads, U.S. Bureau of, 668–669, 671, 673–674
• Pung Pear Heng, 242
• Pung Peng Cheng, 242
• Qadir, Manzur, 85, 88–89, 92, 152, 154, 190–191, 200
• Qizilbash, 7, 9–11
• Quarles, Donald A., 56, 420–421
• Quemoy, 58n, 73
• Quinim Pholsena, 862, 900, 922, 946, 1002
  • political situation in Laos, 799, 806, 936, 942, 944, 1003–1004
• Ramsbotham, Peter, 170
• Ramsey, Henry C., 97–100, 102
• Randall, Clarence B., 1–4, 100–101
• Rapacki, Adam, 91
• Ratanov, Anatoly, 982
• Red Cross agreement, Vietnamese Democratic Republic-Thailand, 347
• Reddick, Joseph, 507
• Reinhardt, G. Frederick, 40, 59n, 78, 84n, 145n, 170, 320n, 678n
• Reynolds, George, 951n
• Rhee, Syngman, 65, 115, 118, 268, 276, 297
• Richards, Arthur L., 454n
• Riddleberger, James W., 339, 568, 685–686, 742
• Riley, Vice Adm. Herbert D., 387n, 690, 696, 708, 866, 911, 914, 931–932, 940
  • special mission to Laos, 888–889, 893n, 897, 899, 904
• Robbins, Capt. B.A., 231, 244, 421
• Robert College, 100
• Robertson, Walter S., 75n, 93n, 232n, 258n, 285n, 308n, 413n, 426n, 439n, 448n, 458n, 470n, 472n, 481n, 512n, 521n
  • British-U.S. relations, 61–62
  • Cambodia, 228n, 229, 246, 250–253, 267–269, 297
    • coup plots, 273n, 274–275, 278–280, 293–295, 320n
    • United States, relations with, 253, 255–256, 300–301
    • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 237, 257n, 258–259, 315
  • China, People’s Republic of, 63, 244, 246, 249
  • China, Republic of, 66
  • four-power military planning, 39n
  • Indonesia, 67
  • Laos, 411, 423–424, 518–519
    • French-U.S. cooperation in, 510n, 523–525, 529, 534, 542–544
    • monetary reform, 420, 422–423, 480–481
    • political situation, 438, 441–442, 461
    • U.S. military aid to, 491, 496, 499, 502–503, 508
  • New Guinea, 57
  • Thailand, 65
  • Vietnam, Republic of-U.S. relations, 265
• Rockefeller Foundation, 381
• Rogers, Charles E., 399
• Rogers, William P., 26
• Romulo, Carlos P., 109, 152, 154
• Roseman, Alvin, 244–245
• Rowney, Col., 592
• Rumbold, Anthony, 170, 576
• Russell, Francis, 23, 92n, 130
• Russell, Richard, 422
• Saccio, Leonard J., 339–342, 423n, 669–675, 684
• Salans, Carl, 353
• Salisbury, Harrison, 119
• Sam Sary, 247, 258, 264, 284, 351, 381, 407
  • coup plots in Cambodia, 272n, 276–277, 294–296, 330–332, 335, 338
• Sandys, Duncan, 78–79, 88–91
• Santos, Gen., 7
• Sarit, Field Marshal Thanarat, 90, 205, 354, 359
  • Laos, 1, 110–113, 811, 825n, 888, 954n, 957
    • Kong Le coup, 783, 787, 792–794, 796, 799–801
    • Phoumi-Boun Oum revolt, 823–826, 833, 840, 847, 863–864, 944, 955
    • political situation, 183, 815–816, 821, 865, 1024
  • Thai-Lao relations, 739–741, 894, 933
  • Thailand, 65, 859, 941
• Savang Vatthana, 507, 511, 514, 690, 743, 782, 902–903, 923, 938–940, 1001
  • Boun Oum government, Dec. 1959, 784, 791, 793, 799, 900
  • communism, 861, 875, 884, 902
  • coup d’état, Dec. 1959, 701–704, 711–712, 716–717, 719–722
  • defense of Laos, 583, 726
  • elections, general, 697, 727, 731, 733, 739
  • elections, supplementary, 434, 439n, 440–441
  • French military aid to Laos, 511, 514
  • government by Royal decree, 460, 462–463, 465, 690, 869–871, 875, 883–886, 900–901, 904, 906, 910, 912, 993
  • Kong Le coup, 784, 791, 793, 799, 900
  • leadership role of, 975–976, 982, 992, 994–997
  • Luang Prabang government, proposal for, 935–937, 944, 952–953, 955–960, 963, 968, 971, 980
  • military situation in Laos, 803, 932n, 951, 963
  • paramilitary government, 900–901, 904, 906, 910, 912
  • Pathet Lao, 874, 885, 902
  • political situation in Laos, 449n, 650–652, 659, 698–699, 766–768, 845, 852, 972
    • conservative coalition attempts, 756, 758–759, 761n, 762–763, 768–771
    • factionalism, 667–668, 680n, 681–682, 691, 694
    • military leaders meeting, Luang Prabang, 860–863, 870, 883–884
    • political leaders meeting, 870, 873–874
    • Royal reconciliation proposal, 839–841, 849–851, 859, 876
  • Souvanna government, Aug. 1960, 806n, 807, 809, 814, 960, 977, 1004
  • U.N. role in Laos, 557n, 691, 743
  • U.S. ambassadorial talks, 876, 877n, 881–886, 891, 901, 922n, 926, 932n
  • U.S.-Lao relations, 480–484, 517–520, 648, 839
  • U.S. special mission to Laos, 889, 891, 899–902
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 870, 872, 877n, 901, 962, 974
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic-Lao relations, 679, 745
• Scherger, Air Marshal Frederick, 52–55
• Scott, Robert, 61–62, 64, 66–68, 108, 156–157, 172–174, 623–624, 637
• Scranton, William W., 590–592
• Seaton, Fred, 333n, 356
• Sedgwick, Charles, 412, 420
• Selkirk, Lord, 755n, 756, 767
• Serrano, Felixberto, M., 91, 188–189, 195–197, 201
• Shaikh, M.S., 109
• Shuff, Charles F., 568, 635
• Sihanouk, Prince Norodom, 260–262, 268, 270, 364–365, 379n, 406–407
  • Cambodia:
    • coup plots, 256–266, 269–271, 279, 281n, 286–289, 293–295, 307n, 317–319
    • political situation, 65, 322, 349–352, 356–357, 387–388
    • U.S. intervention request, 181–185, 189, 300–306
    • U.S. jet aircraft and pilot training, 366, 370–371, 396–398
    • U.S. military aid to, 206–207, 366, 376n, 377n, 380–383, 390, 393
    • U.S. policy toward, 299, 362–365, 367–369
    • Vietnam, Republic of, 311, 315–316
  • Chinese People’s Republic-Cambodia relations, 240–246, 360–361, 366, 368, 375–376, 408–410, 472
  • communism, 8–9, 292
  • Laos, 74, 1003, 1015, 1021, 1028
  • neutralism, 228, 254, 324–325, 337
  • “open letter,” 362–364
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 44, 282, 290, 292, 348
  • U.S.-Cambodian relations, 178, 204–207, 218, 248, 275, 295–296, 319, 345
  • Vietnam, Republic of, 233–239
  • visits to:
    • China, People’s Republic of, 249–250, 374, 393, 396, 405–409
    • India, United Arab Republic, Yugoslavia, 355
    • Indonesia, 265–266
    • Soviet bloc, 390, 396, 405–407
    • United States, 252–256, 382–385, 38
    • Vietnam, Republic of, 329, 335, 345n
• Sim Var, 230–231, 242
• Sing Rathanamay, Gen., 702–703, 711, 722, 805, 961
• Singapore, 19, 26, 31n, 37, 65, 85, 156–158, 189, 191, 214, 215, 222
• Sisavang Vong, King, 388, 641n, 644, 648, 782
• Sisco, Joseph J., 127, 592, 594, 598, 627, 641n, 1010n
• Sisouk Na Champassak, 691–692, 696n, 978n, 1010, 1019
• Sisouk, Nouphat. See Nouphat Sisouk.
• Sisoumang, 806, 942, 944
• Slat Peau, 343, 356
• Smith, Horace H., 480–482, 529n, 548, 609n, 637–640, 658n, 738–740, 773n
  • coup d’état in Laos, Dec. 1959, 702–707, 711–716, 723–726
  • defense of Laos, 517–520, 573–575, 584–587, 590, 687
  • elections, general, in Laos, 482–484, 651–652, 729–732, 737–738, 747–748, 750, 754, 774–776
  • French military aid to Laos, 509–512, 514–516, 521n
  • French-U.S. cooperation in Laos, 526n, 534, 617
  • Geneva Accords, 492, 494, 496, 499–502
  • military situation in Laos, 104n, 555–556, 607, 613
  • monetary reform in Laos, 454–459, 481
  • Phoui government, 486–490, 513n, 657, 659
  • political situation in Laos, 436n, 439n, 443–445, 461–465, 645, 650, 690, 699–700, 753n
    • conservative coalition attempts, 447–448, 755, 761–765, 768–771
    • factionalism, 666–668, 672n, 680–683, 690
    • formation of new government, 468–470, 471n, 472n, 473n
  • U.N. role in Laos, 559n, 578n, 687
  • U.S. diplomatic internal conflicts, 683–687, 695, 754
  • U.S. economic aid to Laos, 446, 669, 671, 673, 683–687, 695
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 452–453, 477–478, 495–496, 505n, 522n, 562n, 564–657, 593
• Smith, James H., Jr., 424, 454n, 485
• Snow, William P., 348
• Sober, Sidney, 364n, 365n
• Somoza, Luis, 102
• Somsanith, 943
  • cabinet role for, 468, 639, 844, 875
  • elections, general, 737, 747, 775
  • formation of new government, 463, 950
  • government of, June 1960, 776–777, 821, 885
  • Kong Le coup, 787, 790–791, 793, 799
  • political situation in Laos, 728, 730–731, 734n, 753, 771, 961–962, 977, 981, 985
• Son Ngoc Thanh, 247, 264, 266, 270, 277, 284, 350–351, 381
• Son Sann, 44, 316, 328, 339, 351
  • coup plots in Cambodia, 280, 282n, 285n, 309
  • Thai-Cambodian relations, 353, 354n, 380
  • Vietnam, Republic of-Cambodia relations, 311–312, 326n, 333
• Sopsaisana, 723
• Souk, 411, 422, 765, 943, 967
• Sounthone, Gen., 111, 461–465, 722, 725–726, 1003
• Souphonouvong, Prince, 415, 439–440, 445, 646, 797, 857
  • Pathet Lao, 498–499, 533, 542, 862
  • political situation in Laos, 436, 442, 725–727, 770, 837, 874, 936, 940, 972
• Sourit, 952
• Sourith, Col., 865
• Southeast Asia (see also Asia; Colombo Plan; Far East; Southeast Asia Treaty Organization; specific countries), 29–33, 45, 78, 211–214, 603
  • China, Republic of, role in, 33, 209n
  • Chinese communities in, 15, 28, 33, 209n, 211, 216–217
  • Chinese People’s Republic role in, 28, 80, 83, 254
  • communications, 8, 139, 220
  • communism, 28–34, 210–211, 215
  • covert operations, 34
  • defense of:
    • aircraft, 53–56
    • Australian position, 46–47, 53–57
    • logistics, 49–53
    • New Zealand position, 49–52
    • U.S. position, 32, 51–52
  • economic situation, 135, 136, 141, 215
  • four-power (U.S.-U.K.-Australia-New Zealand) military planning, 38–41, 47–48, 57, 59–61
  • Japanese role in, 34, 58, 216
  • Philippine military role in, 41
  • regional cooperation, 30, 189, 212, 334, 345, 507
  • U.N. role in, 211–212, 346, 635–636, 643
  • U.S. policy in, 26–34, 178–179, 209–229, 779
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic role in, 28, 80, 83–84, 226n
• Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty, 30, 213, 221
  • Article 2, 164, 167
  • Article 4, 152, 164, 226
• Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) (see also SEATO subheadings under other subjects), 47, 75–78, 81–82
  • appointed nation, 103n, 113, 162, 166–167, 170
  • Australian position, 82, 144, 164, 167, 177, 187, 194, 197, 226n
  • British position, 8, 19–20, 38
  • Cambodia, 241, 282, 290, 292, 298–299, 346, 348, 395
  • Canberra Council meeeting. See Council meetings below.
  • commanders, selection of, 166–167, 170, 177
  • communications facilities, 82, 193, 226
  • Council meetings:
    • Bangkok, 104–105, 176–178
    • Canberra, 15
    • Manila, 6–14, 18–25
    • Washington, 87, 128, 145–156, 182n, 187–202, 777n
    • Wellington, 22, 48, 78–79, 84–92
  • counterinsurgency force, 81, 83, 93–94, 103–105, 112–113
  • economic aid policies, 89–90
  • French position, 8, 20, 156, 188
  • Graduate School of Engineering, 156
  • Heads of Government meeting, 76–77
  • internal security, 45–46
  • Laos, 48, 106–109, 599
    • threat of allied split on, 848, 894
    • visit of Secretary-General to, 147–156
  • Laotian appeal to, 227, 583–584, 591–594
  • Manila Council meeting. See Council meetings above.
  • military planning, 79–81, 127–133, 144–145, 161–164, 170–172, 175–177, 182–183, 193–194, 197, 225–226
  • Military Planning Office, 46–47
  • New Zealand position, 4, 7, 12–13, 21–22, 189–190
  • Pakistani position, 7, 9–11, 83, 145, 156, 176–177, 193
  • Philippine position, 7, 11, 82–83, 89, 145, 177, 188–189, 197
  • Thai position, 8–9, 187–188
  • Tibet, 86–87, 92
  • U.S. position, 31–32, 129–130, 139, 164, 170–172, 194
  • Vietnam, Republic of, participation in, 9
  • Washington Council meeting. See Council Meetings above.
  • Wellington Council meeting. See Council Meetings above.
• Southep, Capt., 952, 954, 974, 982, 985
• Souvanna Phouma, Prince, 415–418, 456, 829n, 870n, 895, 896, 949n, 974, 999, 1003
  • Chinese People’s Republic military aid to Laos, 992
  • coalition government with Pathet Lao, 972, 981, 984, 992, 1015
  • communism, 417–418
  • elections, general, 747, 748n, 749, 763, 765
  • elections, supplementary, 438, 440, 445, 449, 451, 468–471, 473
  • exile of, 1001–1002, 1015, 1021, 1028
  • French-Lao relations, 909–911
  • French military aid to Laos, 476–477
  • government of Aug. 1960, 797–798, 800, 802, 804, 806n, 808, 812, 814, 818–821, 841–845, 847, 853
    • Phoumi role in, 829, 831–833, 835–836
  • International Control Commission, 451–452, 505–506, 508
  • Kong Le coup, 721n, 723, 786, 790, 820, 874
  • Luang Prabang, attack on, 958n, 964, 966, 968, 973–975, 982, 985, 988, 991
  • Luang Prabang government, proposal for, 901, 904, 910, 916, 936–937
  • military situation in Laos, 835, 931–932, 938, 951, 997–998
  • monetary reform, 418–420, 422–423, 458–459
  • neutralism of Laos, 8, 939–940, 942
  • Pathet Lao, 857, 925, 963, 976
    • negotiations with, 896, 898, 906, 920–921, 938, 942–943
    • U.S. position, 885, 917, 919, 927–929
  • Phoumi-Souvanna negotiations, 806, 813–816, 824, 826–828
  • political situation in Laos, 748n, 753, 770, 873–874, 878n, 944, 984, 989–991
    • cabinet crisis, 458, 460–463, 468–471, 473
    • conservative coalition attempts, 758, 760, 762–763
    • factionalism, 680n, 682, 691
    • isolation from non-communist elements, 961, 971, 977
    • military leaders meeting, 860–862, 867
  • resignation of, 965, 966n, 969, 971, 977, 1018, 1021, 1029
  • Soviet-Lao relations, 868, 893, 898, 903, 909, 992
  • U.S.-Lao relations, 411–414, 459, 889, 891, 895–897, 933
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 421, 822, 825, 830, 890, 894–895, 925n, 954n, 961, 978
    • support for all anti-communist forces, 913–914, 915n, 916
  • visits to:
    • China, People’s Republic of, 414–415
    • Vietnamese Democratic Republic, 414–415
• Souvannavong, Ourot R., 411, 422, 811, 1023
• Soviet Union (see also Soviet and Soviet Union subheadings under other subjects), 16, 51, 418, 920, 982
  • Chinese People’s Republic, relations with, 117, 134, 179–180, 188, 192, 602, 811
  • foreign policy, 10, 12, 20
  • United States, relations with, 11, 116, 184–185, 582, 905
• Spaak, Paul Henri, 254
• Special National Intelligence Estimates, SNIE 68-2-59, 624–626
• Special Watch Committee, 1013, 1025
• Spinelli, Pier P., 627, 632
• Sprague, Mansfield D., 250, 420, 466–468, 475
• Staats, Elmer B., 210
• Stans, Maurice H., 26, 102, 118, 121–122, 133
• Steeves, John M., 354n, 355, 360n, 371n, 382, 646n, 656n, 665n, 675n, 678n, 701n, 707n, 716n, 717n, 740n, 742, 750n, 751n, 752n, 173n, 848n, 853n, 863n, 886n, 891n, 893, 903n, 915n, 919n, 922n, 925n, 941n, 1006n, 1022n
  • Australia, 223–225
  • Cambodia, 364–365, 385–386, 389–395
  • four-power military planning, 59
  • Laos, 759–760, 772, 853, 889–890, 1012–1013, 1024, 1026
  • New Zealand, 223–225
  • SEATO military planning, 172–173
  • Singapore, 157
  • Southeast Asia, 96
  • U.S. military aid to Laos, 496–498, 499, 502, 857, 869
• Strom, Carl W., 228n, 232n, 244–245, 251
  • Cambodia-Vietnam, Republic of, relations, 233–235, 236n, 237, 257n
  • China, People’s Republic of, 239n, 240–243
  • coup plots in Cambodia, 272–273, 276–277, 280–281, 282n, 285n, 286, 288, 291–293, 295–297, 300
• Stuart, 44, 290
• Stump, Adm. Felix B., 426–428, 430–433, 453
• Subandrio, 67, 86, 88, 168–169
• Submarine warfare, 51–52
• Sukarno, 9, 88, 168–169, 188, 196
• Sum Hieng, 332
• Sumulong, Lorenzo, 11
• Suramarit, King Norodom, 239, 243, 257, 277, 304–305, 357, 364, 379
• Swank, Emory C., 1012n
• Swezey, Anthony C., 325n, 353n
• Tachen Islands, 64
• Taiwan (see also China, Republic of), 196–197, 200, 241, 408
• Taiwan Straits conflict, 14, 61n, 85, 92, 180
• Tamaboui, 566
• Tan, 486, 639
• Tane Chounlamountri, 456
• Tep Phan, 368, 377n, 380, 406
• Thailand (see also Thailand and Thai subheadings under other subjects), 26, 35–36, 53, 113, 199, 220, 394–395, 428, 746
  • Burma, relations with, 90, 188, 299, 347
  • Cambodia, relations with, 188, 218–220, 262, 267–269, 291–292, 308, 324–325, 366, 374–376
    • border disputes, 35, 199–200, 231, 267–268, 346, 353–354
    • diplomatic break, 298–299
    • election observer role, 284
    • improvement in, 204–205, 241, 256, 292, 314, 334, 353
    • support of dissidents in, 246–247, 348, 407
    • traditional animosities, 278, 345, 358, 373, 387
    • U.N. role in, 374–375
    • U.S. military aid requests, 376
    • U.S. position, 36, 306, 355–356, 361, 371–372, 380
  • Cambodia, U.S. military aid to, 394–395, 398
  • Cambodia-Vietnam, Republic of, dispute, 322, 359–360
  • China, People’s Republic of, relations with, 9
  • China, Republic of, relations with, 214
  • Chinese community, 9, 199
  • India, relations with, 90, 359
  • Indonesia, relations with, 9, 22n, 88, 90, 198–199
  • Laos:
    • Phoumi–Boun Oum revolt, 840, 863–864, 896
    • recall of Thai nationals in, 898–899
    • U.N. position, 736, 740
    • U.S. military aid to, 618, 979, 1007
  • Laos, relations with, 35, 865–866, 894, 933
    • border blockade, 864–865
  • Malaya, relations with, 9, 90, 188
  • rolitical situation, 9, 65, 200, 651, 682, 736
  • Preah Vihear temple, 199–200, 267–268, 346, 353–354
  • Royal Thai Police Aerial Resupply Unit (PARU), 112, 934
  • Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, 44, 60, 81–82, 90
    • appointed nation role, 162, 166–167, 170, 177–178
    • status of forces agreement, 177
  • Soviet Union, relations with, 9, 941
  • United States, relations with, 278, 301–302, 354n, 783–785, 819, 859
  • Vietnam, Republic of, relations with, 347
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic threat to, 84
  • Vietnamese refugees in, 347, 349
• Thanat Khoman, 88, 90–92, 187, 198–199, 334–335, 346–347, 349
  • Cambodian-Thai relations, 353, 354n, 373–375
  • Kong Le coup, 783, 795n, 796, 800
  • SEATO role in Laos, 146, 152–154, 176, 572
• Thao Leuam Rajosombat, 468, 474, 691, 696, 728, 775
• Thao Ma, 416
• Tho. See Nguyen Ngoc Tho.
• Thompson, Llewellyn, 1029
• Thong, 862
• Thong My, 954
• Thornton, Brig. I.W., 47, 105, 194
• Tianethone, 730
• Tibet, 85–87, 134, 190, 192, 408
• Tim Dong, 328
• Timor, Portuguese, 197
• Tioulong, 346
• Tobler, John, 656–657, 669, 675, 684–687
• Touby Lyfoung, 799, 802n
• Treasury, U.S. Department of the, 121, 400
• Trimble, William G., 346, 348, 354n
  • Cambodia, 312–313, 360–362, 406
    • coup plots, 301, 304–305, 307, 330–332, 338
  • U.S.-Cambodia relations, 339–342, 345n, 379–382, 385–386, 389–390
  • Vietnam, Republic of-Cambodia relations, 320, 323, 328, 330–332, 335
• Troung Cang, 232n
• Tunisia, 605–606
• Tuomioja, Sakari, 742n, 743
• Turnage, William V., 411
• Tuthill, John W., 169n, 170
• Twining, Gen. Nathan F., 123, 125, 248–249, 589, 610–611, 616, 620–621, 868
• Twist, Harry, 172
• Ty Kim Sour, 380
• Underhill, Frank T., 69
• Unger, Leonard, 783–784, 791–793, 795n, 798–801, 808, 812n, 823–824, 825n
• United Arab Republic, 355, 627n, 1021
• United Kingdom (see also British, Tripartite, and United Kingdom subheadings under other subjects), 19, 20, 57, 59, 82, 85, 86n, 191, 192, 226n, 322, 327, 407
  • United States, relations with, 38–41, 62, 222, 576–577, 637–640, 658, 910–911, 1005
• United Nations (see also United Nations Charter; U.N. and United Nations subheadings under other subjects), 32, 283–385
  • Chinese representation. See U.N. membership for under China, People’s Republic of.
  • Congo, 905, 915, 920
  • General Assembly, 43, 165, 337–338, 380, 614, 864
  • Neighborly Relations resolution, 269
  • Security Council, 148–149, 165, 605, 978n, 1010
  • “Uniting for Peace” procedure, 627
• United Nations Charter, 9, 30, 193, 213, 219
  • Article 1, 587n
  • Article 24, 632
  • Article 29, 108, 594, 627, 629, 632
  • Thai-Cambodian relations, 269
  • U.S. adherence to, 358
• United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), 743–744
• United States Information Agency (USIA), 673, 779
• United States Information Service (USIS), 746
• United States Intelligence Board, 1013
• Usher, Richard E., 353n, 354n, 355–356, 357n, 362n, 554, 558n, 645n, 646n, 656n, 665n, 667n, 675n, 678n, 688n, 751n, 752n, 757n, 804n, 831n, 839n, 848n, 851n, 853n, 922n, 941n, 949n, 951n, 953n, 954n, 963n, 980n, 984n, 1005, 1019n, 1020n
• Vavrikan, Prince Norodom, 330n
• Viet Cong (see also Vietnam, Republic of), 338
• Viet Minh (see also Pathet Lao; Vietnamese Democratic Republic), 35, 36, 221, 230, 415, 499–500, 859
• Vietnam (see also Viet Cong; Viet Minh; Vietnam, Republic of; Vietnamese Democratic Republic), 68, 220, 413, 416, 500, 508
• Vietnam, Republic of (see also Vietnam, Republic of subheadings under other subjects), 12, 206–207, 215
  • Cambodia, relations with, 218, 221, 231, 276, 284, 324–325, 348, 366
    • border control arrangements, 308, 319–320, 323–327
    • border incidents, 230–239, 250, 255–256, 259, 358–359, 364, 367
    • coup plots, 204–205, 247, 256–266, 285–287, 292–293, 298–300, 330–332, 335–338, 342–344, 348
    • Diem–Sihanouk talks, 329–330, 335–336, 338, 344, 345n
    • prisoners, 259, 296, 298–299, 322, 327
    • Thai position, 359–360
    • traditional animosities, 278, 358
    • U.S. position, 276–277, 306, 313–314, 322, 355–356, 361, 371–372, 380
    • U.S. role, 315–320, 325–327, 333
  • Cambodia, U.S. military aid to, 376, 394–395, 398
  • China, Republic of, relations with, 214
  • Chinese People’s Republic diplomatic recognition, 472
  • Laos, relations with, 35, 161, 415, 428, 447, 449n, 746, 894, 1029
  • military situation, 96, 122–123, 126, 139–140, 889
  • Philippines, relations with, 11, 21
  • political situation, 9, 20, 65, 186, 188, 191, 195, 201, 221, 263–264
  • Thailand, relations with, 347, 349
  • U.N. role, 636, 643
  • United States, relations with, 265, 276, 278–279, 292, 301–304, 312, 316–317, 819
  • U.S. economic aid to, 316–317
  • U.S. military aid to, 36, 206–207, 210, 316–317, 394–395, 494
  • U.S. policy toward, 36, 220–221, 223
  • Viet Cong, 180
  • Vietnamese Democratic Republic attack on, 80
• Vietnamese Democratic Republic (see also Viet Minh; Vietnamese Democratic Republic subheadings under other subjects), 143, 215, 221, 226, 492, 497, 560
  • Cambodia, relations with, 230
  • diplomatic recognition of, 37, 193, 223, 798
  • Laos, relations with, 507, 517, 519, 547–548, 649, 789, 1022
  • National Unification Commission, 204
  • U.N. position, 171, 223
  • U.S. intervention in, 1029
  • U.S. policy, 37–38, 122–123, 138–140, 220–221, 223
• Visutr Arthayukti, 109, 373
• Vu Van Mau, 258–259, 310, 347, 349, 449n
• Wadsworth, James J., 628, 631–633
• Wallner, Woodruff, 612, 614, 616
• Wan Waithayakun, Prince, 8–9, 19, 268
• Weeks, Sinclair, 26
• Weir, Maj. Gen. Cyril E., 56, 79n, 162
• Weiss, Seymour W., 562n, 567, 974, 1019n, 1020n
• Wellings, Adm., 971n
• Wells, Lt. Gen. Henry, 46–48, 56
• Western Mediterranean Pact, 6
• White, G.D.L., 151, 184, 568, 576
• Whitman, Ann, 400, 402
• Whitney, John Hay, 170
• Whittington, Floyd L., 228n, 229–230, 434–435, 436n, 460n
• Wilcox, Francis O., 127, 333, 567n, 611, 641n, 646n, 742
  • military situation in Laos, 568, 571, 592–595, 597–598
  • U.N. role in Laos, 627–629, 631, 678n
  • U.S. troop training in Laos, 616, 619, 777
• Williams, Hayden, 812–813
• Williams, Gen. Samuel T., 161, 336, 342–343, 595n
• Wilson, James M., 475n
• Winckler, Jean-Claude, 109, 777
• Wolf, Charles, Jr., 507
• Wongsan, Prince, 110
• Wood, Chalmers B., 370–371
• Wood, Jack, 802
• World Court. See International Court of Justice.
• World Health Organization (WHO), 744
• Yeh, George, 66
• Yem Sambaur, 247
• Youde, E. P., 69
• Young, Kenneth T., Jr., 411
• Yugoslavia, 355
• Zellweger, Edward, 374, 744, 761, 765, 815, 817–818, 820–825, 826, 843, 865
• Zimmermann, Robert W., 75–76, 77n