“On the France's Indochina involvement: "They were engaged in the most dangerous of all activities – deceiving themselves…France was engaged in a task beyond her strength, indeed, beyond the strength of any external power unless it was acting in support of the dominant local will and purpose."”

—  Dean Acheson , book Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department

Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Vietnam

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