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...tangible reassurance of Chinese good intentions; even Indonesia, staunchest of Nehru's supporters, was put out by Red China's claim of jurisdiction over Indonesia's 3,000,000 Chinese. As Nehru proceeded on his way, paying a friendly call at Hanoi, he was surprised when Ho Chi Minh, president of the Red Viet Minh, did not bother to meet him at the airfield...
Communism was on the move in Asia, massively and triumphantly. Ho Chi Minh moved into Hanoi as the non-Communist forces retreated sullenly before him, bickering in a fashion which suggested that, before long, Ho might also be moving into Saigon and all of Indo-China...
...Hanoi, Viet Minh officials, all correctness and efficiency, moved into city offices as if they had always owned them. Viet Minh propagandists set up scores of "centers of political education for the people." Past fluttering banks of gold-starred flags, wispy Ho Chi Minh returned triumphantly to the city from which he fled in 1946 to hide in the jungle and mastermind Communism's war for Indo-China...
...Ho moved into the old French governor general's palace. His eight years of exile at an end, he grandly wined and dined India's Premier Nehru. They ate off plates once used by Emperor...
What happened in the textile city of Namdinh (pop. 100,000), the third largest city in the north, was enough to scare even the most optimistic French businessman. As soon as the Reds arrived, everybody was ordered to turn in his nationalist piasters (value: 3? U.S.) for Ho Chi Minh piasters, got the arbitrary rate of 22 Ho Chi Minh piasters to one nationalist. Prices soared. After a short period of false prosperity, while merchants sold their stocks at wild prices, all business came to a standstill. Import taxes of 30% to 40% were levied on new goods, killing...