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...made a dramatic contrast. The Emperor was young (then 32), plump, clean-shaven, bland-faced, fond of snappy Western sport clothes. Ho was aging (55), slight (hardly 5 ft. tall), goat-bearded, steelyeyed, usually seen in a frayed khaki tunic and cloth slippers. Ho Chi Minh, too, had gone to France for education. As a young man, he had been sent into exile by the French police of Indo-China because of his family's nationalist agitation. His father and a brother went to political prison for life. A sister received nine years of hard labor...
...Paris, Ho (then known as Nguyen Ai Quoc) became a photographer's assistant, wrote anti-imperialist articles. He also joined the French Communist Party. He was sent to Moscow for training, became a Comintern functionary, re-emerged in 1925 at Canton, where he helped Russian Agent Borodin in Communism's first attempt to seize China...
From Hong Kong in 1931 Ho Chi Minh organized the first Indo-Chinese Communist Party. The British clapped him into jail for a year. When he came out, he continued organizing Red cells in his country. Japan and World War II gave him his big chance...
Using popular front-tactics, Ho established the Viet Minh-League for the Independence of Viet Nam. It directed guerrilla war against both Vichy French and Japanese, enlisted the support of many Indo-Chinese nationalists. American OSS agents and arms were parachuted to Ho's side...
...Uncle Ho." By the time the French were ready to pick up the postwar strings again in Indo-China, Communist Ho was very much a popular hero, better known as "Uncle Ho." He spoke a "soft" Communist line, talked more about freedom, democracy and reform. Bao Dai was in a different position. He had suffered in reputation because he had "gotten along" with Vichy French and Japanese...