Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Membership in the Communist empire and expert guidance. Red China officers swarm, and Red China goods are turning up in Hanoi. Seven of eleven top Viet Minh leaders were trained in Moscow. Ho Chi Minh, according to the best evidence, reports direct to Moscow, not through Peking...
...Viet Minh, unlike its Western adversaries, has no impreciseness of purpose. "The party recognizes that the Viet Nam revolution is an integral part of the world revolution led by the Soviet Union," the Viet Minh proclaims...
...Premier in Saigon is Ngo Dinh Diem, 53, a high-minded patriot but an ineffective leader, who is more or less locked up inside his palace by Vietnamese generals who want to grab power for themselves. In many of the villages that the Viet Minh infiltrators do not control,* local sects and gangsters rule with private armies...
...Vietnamese generals to intrigue against Diem; other Frenchmen want to replace Diem with Buu Hoi, 39, a left-wing leprosy expert who has not lived in Indo-China for 20 years. In the Communist North, a 20-man French mission hopes to keep "the French presence" in the Viet Minh state, and do business there; there is even talk of French help to rebuild the vital strategic railroad from Hanoi to Langson on the Red China frontier...
...cynicism, intrigue and despair. His own role was difficult. He would not be able to give orders; he would only be able to recommend, pressure and persuade. U.S. officials on the scene would like the French to recall their mission from Hanoi and quit dealing with Ho Chi Minh, to call the Vietnamese generals off Diem, and to get rid, once and for all, of Bao Dai. Only then could Diem tackle South Viet Nam's basic problems: speed land reform, strengthen the army and restore confidence...