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...offensive had been a major defeat for Ho Chi Minh. On the Red radio, he told his troops that they must now abandon open warfare and go back to their former guerrilla tactics. Said Ho's Commander in Chief General Vo Nguyen Giap: "Our objective is not to take Haiphong or Hanoi, but to start a war of attrition...
...Minh and his government are prisoners of the sinister Tong Bo, the Communist Party Politburo, and in particular of five of its members, rising young extremists who really run the show. The most important is Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietminh's frail, passionate, 38-year-old Minister of National Defense. Vo Nguyen Giap, a Communist since his teens, was first arrested when he was 18. His wife died in a French jail four years ago. More than anyone else, he created the Vietminh army. A ruthless and bloodthirsty man, he has coldly directed the liquidation of anti-Communists...
...socialist, he took the cure in Moscow, subsequently turned up (1924) at the Soviet Consulate in Boston, and later (1927) as an aide to Michael Borodin, who, during the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, was Russia's Grey Eminence advising the Kuomintang. Ho has a War Minister named Vo Nguyen-giap, who hates the French, because, he says, his wife perished in a French jail...