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Planted Seeds. In 1940, for the first time in 28 years, Ho returned to his native Viet Nam. Operating from the mountainous caves of Cao Bang province (where he dutifully dubbed a streamlet "Lenin Spring"), Ho planted the seeds of the Viet Minh-the underground outfit that would carry him to power. During the five-year Japanese occupation of World War II, he carefully nursed alliances with the Chinese Communists, the Kuomintang and the American OSS, receiving some aid from all three. His steady aim: to strengthen the Viet Minh and one day kick out the French...
...next pilgrimage was to a certain spot on the streamlet for which West Branch* is named. Part of the villagers' preparations had been to restore, with a dam, what used to be the Old Swimming Hole. The Nominee eyed the work and then said to Newton C. Butler, one of the three playmates of his youth whom he had found still in West Branch: "No, this is not the place at all. I think it is up yonder by that tree...
...yonder" the party headed, but thick Iowa gumbo prevailed. The reminiscers turned back to their automobile, hot and muddy. Not until the afternoon, when persevering, he returned to the streamlet, did the Nominee see the place where small "Bertie" Hoover used to splash...
Five days afterward came a sudden thaw. From ice into water turned many a stream-including the Serpentine, that storied streamlet of Hyde Park, London, in which swam Peter Pan. Thus, it became possible to hold last week, the famous 110-yard Serpentine Swimming Race which is sponsored each year by Sir James Matthew Barrie. Last week he stood at one end of the Serpentine under an old, sopping umbrella and awarded to the winner of the race, one H. J. Edwards, the handsome, annually donated Peter...
Along the streamlet, tall...