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Handsome Jean Sainteny, 47, looked like the very Frenchman to talk coexistence with Ho Chi Minh. Sainteny served before the Indo-China war as French Commissioner in Hanoi, and wrote a bitterly anti-U.S., pro-Ho book about it. He was subsequently wounded by an exploding Communist hand grenade, but this did not dim his ardor for Ho, whom he called "the Gandhi of Indo-China...
...Hanoi with a 20-man mission and the blessings of Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Sainteny defined his objective as "preventing bridges being burned," argued that the Vietnamese people of Hanoi must surely need French culture, and that French technical assistance might create a Tito out of Ho. More skeptical Westerners shook their heads. "Sainteny's a nice fellow," said one, "but he believes in fairies...
...national commander of the Jewish War Veterans, I [visited] Viet Nam and . . . can attest to the accuracy of your observations in your Nov. 22 story on Ho Chi Minh, [but] a number of optimistic points might be made on the basis of what I saw. I found the then President Tran Van Huu definitely pro-American and highly regarded by those Vietnamese who are favorable to the West. Although he left me with a clear impression that he felt that Viet Nam will eventually fall to the Communists because of the clever Communist propaganda program directed to what the masses...
...Your article clearly illustrated the ruthlessness of the French and all their dirty, underhanded dealings in an effort to keep the people of Indo-China under their thumb. They supported Bao Dai, a puppet, who lived in frivolous luxury while the people suffered in poverty and disease. Ho Chi Minh lives simply and works hard, and took advantage of all this...
That picture of the Indo-Chinese women greeting the Viet Minh in Hanoi looks more like a national convention of tombstone gazers than a glad-hand welcoming committee. Ho Chi Minh and his henchmen would probably shudder with fear if they could properly analyze and interpret the facial expressions of these sad-looking souls...