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Nguyen Duy Thanh, 41, has grey hair, soft brown eyes and a deceptively mild manner. He has been with Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh since 1945. In 1941 he was appointed general commanding Ho's Vietminh engineers, and from 1948 until two months ago was Ho's minister of industrial production. Said Nguyen Duy Thanh last week...
...Communist propaganda sneers at Bao Dai's phantom government, but nothing could be more phantomlike than Ho Chi Minh's cabinet. When we were not in session, no two cabinet ministers were allowed to be within 30 miles of each other. Cabinet meetings were held once a month, in different places in the mountains. It was quite usual for a minister to bicycle 60 miles to a meeting...
...Ho Chi Minh presides over the meetings. He used to arrive last, no one knew from where, preceded by secret police and accompanied by a small bodyguard. Cabinet meetings always opened in the same way. First we saluted the Vietminh* flag and observed a minute's silence for our dead. Then he would analyze the international situation...
...Father Ho. "Ho has simple manners and is an amusing man. I suppose he imitates Stalin. He likes to be 'Old Father Ho' to the people and 'Uncle Ho' to the children. This offsets some of the harm the Communists have done themselves by overthrowing the cult of respect to our ancestors which we Tonkinese have inherited from Confucius. Sometimes Ho recites verse. Sometimes he cracks a joke. I remember once-in Annamite we use the same word for 'cholera' as for 'left'-we had an outbreak of cholera, and he told...
James Edward Haar '50, Music; Wolfgang William Hallo '49, History; Francis Russell Hart, 3d '50, English; Donald Grant Hitchings '48, Economics; Charles Eric Ho '50, Chemistry; Anatol Wolf Holt '50, Mathematics; Milton Forrest Hughes '50, English; Herbert Samuel Hurwitz '50, Biology; Humphrey Wynne Johnson '50, Comp. Phil. & Rom. Languages; David Llewellyn Jones '50, English; John Lord Kice '50, Chemistry; William Aloys Klemperer '50, Chemistry; Allen Eugene Kline '50, Economics; Walter Emery Klingenasmith '50, Biology; Karl George Kohn '48, Music...