namese Workers ' Party". Article 12 of Chapter Three of the Manifesto and ?lattorm of the Parry issued in February 1951,reads as follows: .., the pecple of Viernam are willing tc enter into long term co-o;eretion wl:h the people of Laos and Cambodia, with a view to bringing about 82 independent, free, strong and prosperous federation of the States of Vietnm, Lacs an8 Ca3lbodia." A f?v wee:<5 af'ter the puSlicaticn of that document, at the 'Ya:ional Csngress cf Unification" which merged the Viezminh Front into the -: -en Vie:, Eo Cki Winh stated: "'I am all the more happy that our people have beer. joined by the two brcther pecples, Cambodia and Laos. We are going to rea';-e seen --"- the peat union of Vietnam-Lacs-Cmbodia." (quoted from "'Jci:~ =? ‘v'ie.:naT.", 19 March 1951) directive Even more explicitly, a "top secret" Vie~samese Workers' Party c<rcuiated 8 months later informed Parzy members -chat "later on, when cccd.iticcs perzit this to be carried out, the three revolutionary parties of Vietnam, Cszbodia and Laos will be reunited to Zorm a single Party." 02 2L February 1951, Vietnam News Agency wrote: ,I . . . The Vietzish league is now planning to unite the national united fronts cf Viec,wT, Lacs ar.9 Ca!!bodia into a nation52 united Front of Indochina, . . WhiCZl Will be calLe2 the Indochina Wazional Independence League." 11 .m - *-. .w -r-$ s-v- j4 I- S;k. .“.“..;.~,‘~~~~~c~~ & B/40/636 Ll "Vietnamese Communism, its origins and developments" by Robert F. Turner - Hoover Institution Press - Standford UniVerSity - California / . . . A/40/678 9117492 EnqLiah Pacae 3 2. “,.* the peoples of Vietnam, Laoa and Kampuchea .., murt build ties of special soli&trity, strategic alliance and close combat coordination according to a commor. strstegic plan., . ‘Indochfnr is d single battlefield”. 