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...Question of Sympathy. The French have made more than the usual colonial mistakes. All too often, especially since they put the Foreign Legion and its German mercenaries to the work of restoring order after World War II, they have been arrogant and brutal toward the Indo-Chinese. They are paying for it now, for the bulk of Communist Ho Chi Minh's support comes from anti-French, or anticolonial Indo-Chinese. A sign over an Indo-Chinese village street tells the story; it reads "Communism, No. Colonialism, Never...
...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...
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...