Heath did not come away impressed, stressing in his report to Washington the delegates’ ”emotional, irresponsible nationalism”: “It was apparent that [the] majority of the delegates had honestly no idea of [the] import of [the] language in [the] resolution they had just passed.” And in another cable: “It is a matter of extraordinary difficulty to convey [the] degree of naiveté and childlike belief that no matter what defamatory language they use, the Vietnamese will still be safeguarded from [the] lethal Communist enemy of France and [the] United States.”
