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    "ocrText": "5/15/54 - Reel 5, track 1, Page 9\nexcuse for control and which a cold war will abuse you (?) And with\nthe UN, which we have rightly or wrongly forced upon the world, it is\ngoing to be a very disorderly world to deal with.\nMR. ACHESON:\nYou've got me mixed up. Sometime or other, before the day is over, just\nas a matter of fact in straightening myself out, I'd like to try and find\nout just when it was, and why it was, that in Indo-China we seemed to\nmove From an idea which President Roosevelt had when he was alive that\nthe French were not going to end up back in Indo-China and then some-\ntime or other in 145 they ended up. I don't know how they got there\nTRUMAN\nor what happened or what happened or what was done.\nVOICE: Me, HARRIMAN\nand I were talking about that the other day--\nNS the ADMIN\nCONTRAMENT\nMR. FEIS:\nI would start off the very first chapter, but maybe we ought to take up\nGreat Britain\nThe President did a great deal of talking. The President and Mr. Hopkins\ntoo, with his sources here and with spying. Partly in connection with\nbecause of\nhis conception of trusteeships, and partly, ( for simply) his observation of\nthe French Foreign Committee. In those (dinections he thought a lot about\nthe future of the French colony, particularly Indo-China.\nHe talked about them first at Teheran and then more extensively at Yalta.\nHis original conception definitely was that they should be put on inter-\nnational trusteeship. By the time of Yalta-- Yalta came around early in\nencountering\n45--he was already considerable trouble with DeGaulle. DeGaulle\nwas claiming a greater place for France in every situation. He wanted a\nzone in Germany, a place on the control commission in Germany, a permanent\nplace on the Council of Foreign Ministers, and so on. And he was bitterly\ncomplaining because he had already made a request for ships to enable\n0001694"
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