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Declassified per Executive Order 13526, Section 3.3
NND Project Number: NND 63316. By: NWD Date: 2011

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-3- #4402, May 17, 2 p.m., from Paris

If this picture can be presented in clear terms, which presentation will in considerable measure be a US responsibility, I should think that the independence of the Associated States would be fully clarified in US opinion and in the opinion of friendly Asian states. I would appreciate receiving Department's comments on this type of approach prior to discussing it with the French.


DILLON

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