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...agitated among the 100,000 Vietnamese in Paris, and tried to drum up support for Indo-China reforms at the Versailles Peace Conference (Woodrow Wilson, apparently unwilling to offend the French, did not take up the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...future Cabinet ministers, Ho would contemplate and debate astronomy and hypnotism; he argued against Couéism ("Every day in every way I'm getting better and better") with Coué; but somehow, most nights the debate would zigzag back to Ho's one gnawing pang: Indo-China. "I am a revolutionary," Ho would explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...this come to pass? Indo-China was a place where the grand antagonisms of the 20th century met, joined and clashed: colonialism, nationalism, Communism interacted violently upon one another. Sometimes such cataclysms throw up one forceful man. or he seizes a ready opportunity. But Indo-China was a place where one man was already waiting, a man who had spent 30 cunning, tortuous years preparing the event, weaving, dodging, converting reverses into successes and eventually triumphing. That man was a strange, blazing-eyed consumptive who called himself Ho Chi Minh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

Stewpans & Silverware. Ho Chi Minh, dedicated Communist, is a matchless interplay of ruthlessness and guile. Before he was nine, in the central Viet Nam province of Nghean, Ho was carrying messages for his father's anti-French underground.* In 1911 he shipped out of Indo-China as a cabin boy on a French vessel, so that he could learn the foreign techniques of revolution and "come back to help my countrymen." He was not yet a Marxist, but already showed signs of an ascetic, fanatic single-mindedness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

...intrigued when Communists sought his advice. In the summer of 1922 Ho gladly attended a Congress of the French Communist Party, which expounded its thesis for "solid front" revolution across the world. Modestly, Ho advocated an alternative plan, a subtler plan, that might go down well in Indo-China. Ho believed in 1) a revolution against French colonialism in the name of nationalism and a "democratic regime," to be followed by 2) a second revolution against nationalism, to achieve the total Socialist state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Land of Compulsory Joy | 11/22/1954 | See Source »

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