Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Better & Better." Later, in Paris, young Ho Chi Minh worked as a photographer's assistant in a dead-end street behind Montmartre, and peddled enlargements ("Living Souvenirs of Your Friends and Relatives"). Each morning he would cook rice in his bare hotel room and at noon would chew half a sausage, or a fish; each evening, a picturesque and mannerly Asian intellectual, he had access to the clubs. With scholars, artists and future Cabinet ministers, Ho would contemplate and debate astronomy and hypnotism; he argued against Couéism ("Every day in every way I'm getting better...
...Minh turned up in London, joined a secret society called "The Overseas Workers." Despite his poor health, he shoveled snow, stoked coal, and got a menial job cleaning silverware at London's Carlton Hotel restaurant. The great Escoffier was then master chef of the Carlton, and to hear the Communist legend-makers tell it, Escoffier took a fancy to the young Asian and called him over for a chat. "Put aside your revolutionary ideas," offered Escoffier to Ho, "and I will teach you the art of cooking." Loftily, Ho Chi Minh declined...
Soon thereafter, it was noticed in Paris that Ho Chi Minh had disappeared...
Lost: an Open Mind. In secret, aboard an ice-covered Soviet vessel, Ho Chi Minh put into Leningrad. "So here you are!" a Communist contact greeted him, and for two years the Russians paid him flattery. In Leningrad they lent Ho a fur coat, treated him to roast meats and two-finger-long cigarettes. In Moscow they invited Ho, about 30 years old, to sit with the President of the Third International. In return, Ho helped the Russians organize their "University for Toilers of the East," and accepted training-like China's Chou En-lai-as a "professional revolutionist...
...Latin Quarter of Paris, explaining to waiters how to prepare his food. In Canton, Ho worked for Borodin, the Russian intriguer who helped undermine China. In Singapore, Ho organized Southeast Asia's Comintern. And when IndoChina's Nationalist Party rebelled against the French in 1930, Ho Chi Minh played it coldly; although he was constantly posing as a Nationalist, Ho and his Reds stood aside and let the Nationalists die. "My itinerary is carefully prescribed," Ho Chi Minh once confessed. "You cannot deviate from the route...