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    "ocrText": "TOP\nSECRET\n- 26 -\nAt the moment, Mr. Rusk said, the United States is considering three\nthings. First, we want to do everything we can to help de Lattre\nin the Tonkin battle. Second, we want to rush emergency supplies for\nsome special Viet Namese battalions. Third, we also want to provide\nequipment for the regular Viet Namese army. He could go into details\ntomorrow with the French staff about whatever additional requests were\nbeing made above these three matters now being considered.\nMr. Heath remarked that only last October the French had\nsaid that they planned to supply all the arms for the Viet Namese while\nthe United States would supply other supplies, the so-called \"soft\"\nsupplies. It was only three weeks ago that the French had asked for\narms for the United Nations.\nMr. Pleven said that was correct but since last October there\nhad been a very rapid increase in arms consumption in Indo-China.\nLast October, the French thought they could provide all the arms.\nNow they are finding that they are getting short of arms in Europe.\nThey are anxious for the earliest possible arming of the Viet Namese\narmy but they must remember their situation in Europe. The French\nGovernment had planned in the budget to supply the needs of 27 Viet\nNamese battalions, to be financed entirely from French sources. But\nTRUMAN\nTOP SECRET\nNATIONAL\nARCHIVES &\nRECORDS"
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