Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was a sense of waiting for orders. Endlessly the men with the megaphones propagated the Eight Political Wisdoms of President Ho ("The clergy must fulfill their duties as citizens"), the Five Disciplines of President Ho ("Newspapers must support the peace policy"), and the Ten Disciplines of the Viet Minh army ("Troops are forbidden to be dissolute"). One day the men with the megaphones instructed the Hanoiese to set their clocks back one hour, to conform to Peking time...
...Viet Minh are correct," says one of these millions, a onetime Viet Minh official who deserted to the West. "They don't violate women. They take nothing. If they borrow a cup of water today, they return it tomorrow. But they watch you. They watch you all the time. They watch what you do. They know what you eat, how much you spend every day on meat and vegetables, whether you have a servant, or want...
Antagonism & Deception. Since the Geneva settlement a bare four months ago, the Viet Minh Communists have...
...Infiltrated South Viet Nam (pop. 10½ million) so deeply that effective Viet Minh control now extends through 85% of the country almost to the gates of the capital, Saigon-where the Nationalist administration of Bao Dai is disintegrating. The Viet Minh are also deeply embedded in Laos (pop. 1.1 million), a state theoretically protected by the Manila Defense Pact. The Viet Minh have assassinated 87 Nationalist leaders in South Viet Nam and the Defense Minister of Laos...
...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...