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...began consorting with the Viet Minh revolutionists, who were plotting the overthrow of Indo-China's French masters. In 1949, he set off on a 40-day trek through the northern jungles to a rendezvous with the brilliant Viet Minh ex-schoolteacher and field commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Over a bottle of warm champagne, which Giap bragged had been "taken from the body of a dead Frenchman," Giap explained how guerrilla warfare worked...
...surprised how soon it mounts up." Even children could be trained to deliver messages or carry grenades. As for the mountain tribesmen, "Teach them to shoot, guide them in killing a French soldier and, by implicating them in a crime, you implicate them in the war." Above all, counseled Giap, keep away from towns. "People in towns have chairs, tables, shoes, beds-you can't eat those things. Country folk have rice, eggs, chickens, pigs. Remember, those who rule the countryside rule the country." Prince Souphanouvong, though fuzzy on his Marxism, took the guerrilla lessons to heart. Equipped with...
...beginning the discomfited French had feared that should the deadline pass the Communists would start up the Indo-China war again. But three weeks ago North Viet Nam's Vice President Vo Nguyen Giap, the Communist victor of Dienbienphu, swallowed the new soft line: "The competition between North and South," he said, "will be on the same basis as the world competition now existing between socialism and capitalism...
...enmity for French colonial rule. Ngo Dinh Diem brings into the battle an incorruptibility even greater and his own record of a lifetime's opposition to French rule and influence. "There are only two real leaders in Viet Nam," Ho's chief of staff, General Vo Nguyen Giap, recognized some time ago. "One is Ho Chi Minh. The other is Ngo Dinh Diem. There is no room in the country for both...
...best general in Southeast Asia, Vo Nguyen Giap, 42, top law student of his time at Hanoi University, graduate of Chinese military schools. A Communist since the late '30s, he is sometimes temperamental and needs to be watched by party theologians, but his hatred for the French is unwavering: his first wife went to jail for calling the Tricolor a "flag of dogs," and died of typhoid there...