Đỗ Quang Giai Geneva agreement was signed to temporarily divide the country at the 17th parallel, he fled to South Vietnam with his family. After moving to Saigon, he worked at different places then retired. He later came out of retirement to work for Hoàng Kim Quy, an entrepreneur and businessman whom he knew from Hanoi. During that time he studied English and eventually became chairman of the Vietnam British Association and received an honorary medal of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). He is probably the only Vietnamese who received an OBE. He then worked for the U.S Embassy with Dr.
1954 Geneva Conference the Berlin Conference, participants agreed that "the problem of restoring peace in Indochina will also be discussed at the Conference [on the Korean question] to which representatives of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Chinese People's Republic and other interested states will be invited." The conference was held at the Palace of Nations in Geneva, commencing on April 26, 1954. The first agenda item was the Korean question to be followed by Indochina. The armistice signed at end of the Korean War required a political conference within three months—a timeline which