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...Ho Chi Minh, the goat-bearded leader of the Viet Minh, has not been seen alive by any non-Communist for more than three years and there have been many rumors (some for a time accepted by U.S. intelligence) that he was seriously ill or dead. Last week he proved to be alive and kicking. From a mysterious retreat somewhere in Communist territory, he came to Thainguyen, 40 miles from Hanoi, and lunched with Canadian, Indian and Polish members of the armistice commission. The Indian representative, Subimal Dutt, reported himself very favorably impressed...
...some areas, the Reds show the people booklets containing pictures of Ho Chi Minh and Bao Dai, ordering them to sign under the picture of their choice. There are few signatures for Bao Dai.* More effective still are the propaganda speeches and the carefully phrased whispers of the women who press the Communist advantage relentlessly. "We are winning," they whisper. "We are winning. Do you want to be with us, or with the French and the foreigners? The white men have surrendered half of your country; they will surrender the other half too. Do not trust them. Come with...
...live inside South China. This grouping is designed to embrace 1,100,000 Laotians and 3,700,000 Cambodians (many of Thai stock), in addition to the 19 million Thais of Thailand. As such, it would make a handsome Red jewel to set beside a Viet Nam run by Ho Chi Minh...
...hours they killed 21, wounded 64. Behind their lines, the Communists were already seizing hold: Vietnamese fleeing their rule reported that the Reds had executed several unfriendly village elders, had plundered Roman Catholic settlements. Inside the cathedral at fallen Namdinh, the Communists displayed a portrait of their President, Ho Chi Minh...
From the other side came no such defeatist talk. The Communist radio broad cast a pledge from Ho Chi Minh that "without fail we will struggle shoulder to shoulder" with the people of South Viet Nam to "liberate them...