851G.00/12–1946: Telegram
The Consul at Saigon (Reed) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 20—3:06 a.m.]
490. Since visit Moffat and New York Times correspondents, pro-Vietnam press publishes almost daily critical articles regarding US and its policy, lack of policy, vis-à-vis French-Vietnam dispute—also references to third party intervention with inference that US will eventually seek economic benefits from this dispute. In mentioning tenor of press, long time resident of French Indochina deplores US not taking more positive stand in present dispute and warns failure French-Vietnam negotiations and apparent indifference US can only drive Annamites into Soviet sphere of influence.