Support by NATO of the French Union Defense Efforts in Indochina: Resolution Adopted by the North Atlantic Council, December 17, 1952, Department of State Bulletin, January 5, 1953, p. 4:
"The North Atlantic Council
"Recognizes that resistance to direct or indirect aggression in any part of the world is an essential contribution to the common security of the free world;
"Having Been Informed at its meeting in Paris on the 16th December of the latest developments in the military and political situation in Indo-China;
"Expresses its wholehearted admiration for the valiant and long continued struggle by the French forces and the armies of the Associated States against Communist aggression; and
"Acknowledges that the resistance of the free nations in South East Asia as in Korea is in fullest harmony with the aims and ideals of the Atlantic Community;
"And there/ore agrees that the campaign waged by the French Union
forces in Indo-China deserves continuing support from the NATO governments."
Source: The Pentagon Papers, Gravel Edition, Vol. 1 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), p. 591