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Agitator Ho. At this point, the lines of Bao Dai's destiny first crossed those of his fellow Annamite Ho Chi Minh...
...Dai reigned but he did not rule. The French (Third Republic and Vichy) shrugged off his earnest pleas for social and economic reforms and more native political autonomy. Cleverly, as they thought, they encouraged the Emperor to devote himself to sport and pleasure...
...Dai was hunting tigers near his summer villa at Dalat when the Japanese, early in 1945, made their 1940 control of the colony official and complete. They surprised his party, took him prisoner, installed him as a puppet emperor-until their own capitulation to the Allies a few months later...
...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...
...returning French began negotiations with the Viet Minh leader. There were polite hints that Bao Dai must go-he was too "unpopular." Bao abdicated, and Ho was in the saddle...