f Moscow, a communist'. (1) The OSS understood the nationalist ingredient in the Vietnamese revolution, but they emphasized the communist in their reports to Washington. (2) During September the first British troops began arriving in Indochina and imposed their control over half of a nation largely controlled by the Viet Minh. The British arranged to bring in French troops in as quickly as possible, and deployed Japanese troops in the Saigon region and elsewhere. 'On 23 September,' the British commander later reported to his superiors, 'Major-General Gracey had agreed with the French that they should carry
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