Fragment of that indication had to do with what he said that the Vietnamese people announced their own freedom in 1945. Even though they cited the American Declaration of Independence in their own text of freedom, USA declined to identify them. Mr King said that in its place USA decided to upkeep France in its reconquest of her previous colony. He stated: "Our administration felt then that the individuals in Vietnam were not "prepared" for independence, and we once more fell prey to the lethal Western conceit that has poisoned the global atmosphere for so long." he was handing over USA as devotees of France but not deliverers of China.