↑ Kể chuyện chín chúa mười ba vua triều Nguyễn, Tôn Thất Bình, Nhà Xuất bản Đà Nẵng, 1997.
↑ Nguyễn Phúc Tộc Thế Phả, Nhà Xuất bản Thuận Hóa, 1995, tr. 405.
↑ Việc này được Hoài Nam Nguyễn Trọng Cẩn ghi lại trong bài thơ sau:Năm trụ khi không rớt cái ình,Đất trời sấm dậy thảy đều kinh.Bài không đeo nữa đem dâng Lại,Đàn nỏ ai nghe khéo dấu Hình.Liệu thế không xong Binh chẳng được,Liêm đằng giữ tiếng Lễ đừng rinh.Công danh thôi thế là hưu hỉ,Đại sự xin nhường lớp hậu sinh.Nguyễn Phúc Tộc gia phả, Nhà Xuất bản Thuận Hóa, 1995, tr. 405.
↑ Why Vietnam, Archimedes L.A Patti, Nhà Xuất bản Đà Nẵng, 2008, trang 646 - 647.
↑ Quỳnh Cư-Đỗ Đức Hùng, Các triều đại Việt Nam, Nhà Xuất bản Thanh niên, 1999, trang 384.
↑ The first Indochina war: French and American policy 1945-54 - Ronald E Irving - London: Croom Helm, 1986.
1 2 H. R. McMaster (1998). Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam. New York, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
↑ The Pentagon Papers, Chapter 2, "U.S. Involvement in the Franco-Viet Minh War, 1950-1954", MEMORANDUM FOR THE PRESIDENT - Harry S. Truman President, trích "Recognition by the United States of the three legally constituted governments of Vietnam, Laos' and Cambodia appears desirable and in accordance with United States foreign policy for several reasons. Among them are: encouragement to national aspirations under non-Communist leadership for peoples of colonial areas in Southeast Asia; the establishment of stable non-Communist governments in areas adjacent to Communist China; support to a friendly country which is also a signatory to the North Atlantic Treaty; and as a demonstration of displeasure with Communist tactics which are obviously aimed at eventual domination of Asia, working under the guise of indigenous nationalism".
↑ The Pentagon Papers, Chapter 2, "U.S. Involvement in the Franco-Viet Minh War, 1950-1954", Trích "The U.S.-French ties in Europe (NATO, Marshall Plan, Mutual Defense Assistance Program) only marginally strengthened U.S. urgings that France make concessions to Vietnamese nationalism. Any leverage from these sources was severely limited by the broader considerations of U.S. policy for the containment of communism in Europe and Asia. NATO and the Marshall Plan were of themselves judged to be essential to our European interests. To threaten France with economic and military sanctions in Europe in order to have it alter its policy in Indochina was, therefore, not plausible. Similarly, to reduce the level of military assistance to the French effort in Indochina would have been counter-productive, since it would have led to a further deterioration in the French military position there. In other words, there was a basic incompatibility in the two strands of U.S. policy: (1) Washington wanted France to fight the anti-communist war and win, preferably with U.S. guidance and advice; and (2) Washington expected the French, when battlefield victory was assured, to magnanimously withdraw from Indochina".
↑ Alfred McCoy. South Vietnam: Narcotics in the Nation's Service. Trích dẫn: "The French had little enthusiasm for this emerging nation and its premier, and so the French had to go. Pressured by American military aid cutbacks and prodded by the Diem regime, the French stepped up their troop withdrawals. By April 1956 the once mighty French Expeditionary Corps had been reduced to less than 5,000 men, and American officers had taken over their jobs as advisers to the Vietnamese army. The Americans criticized the french as hopelessly "colonialist" in their attitudes, and French officials retorted that the Americans were naive During this difficult transition period one French official denounced "the meddling Americans who, in their incorrigible guilelessness, believed that once the French Army leaves, Vietnamese independence will burst forth for all to see." Although this French official was doubtlessly biased, he was also correct. There was a certain naiveness, a certain innocent freshness, surrounding many of the American officials who poured into Saigon in the mid 1950s"".
↑ Dương Kiền. Việt Nam thế kỷ 20 biên niên sử. Falls Church, VA: Tiếng Quê Hương, 2005. tr. 57.
↑ Bảo Đại - hay những ngày cuối cùng của vương quốc An Nam, Daniel Grandclément, Nhà Xuất bản Phụ Nữ. Trang 373.
↑ Why Vietnam, Archimedes L.A Patti, Nhà Xuất bản Đà Nẵng, 2008, trang 648 - 649.
↑ Why Vietnam, Archimedes L.A Patti, Nhà Xuất bản Đà Nẵng, 2008, trang 649.
↑ Why Vietnam, Archimedes L.A Patti, Nhà Xuất bản Đà Nẵng, 2008, trang 650.
↑ He divided his time among the pleasure of the resort towns of Dalat, Nha Trang, and Banmethuout, and for all practical purposes, remained outside the process of government - United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense/II. A. U.S., France and Vietnamese Nationalism.
↑ Năm 1996, khi các bác sĩ người Pháp giải phẫu mắt cho ông, nhiều đoàn thể và tổ chức chính trị đến chúc mừng và mời ông tham dự với tư cách lãnh tụ, ông khoát tay và nói như van nài: "S’ il vous plaît, laissez- moi vivre et mourir en paix". Xem Tư liệu (kỳ 9): Hỏi chuyện tình bà "thứ phi" Mộng Điệp với cựu hoàng Bảo Đại của Nguyễn Đắc Xuân, bài được đăng trên tạp chí Kiến thức ngày nay, số 527, tháng 3 năm 2005.
