Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ironically, the closing hours of Geneva had proved that the Communists were in reality desperately anxious for a ceasefire, though they played their hand without revealing the fact. The Communist Viet Minh in Indo-China were tired of living in mountain hideouts. The Red Chinese wanted a period of peace to consolidate their restive home front, and they were deeply apprehensive that the U.S. might intervene. The existence of these fears, even after the U.S. had plainly shown no enthusiasm to get involved in Indo-China, was a sad reminder that the whole of Indo-China might have been saved...
Over the Communist radio. President Ho Chi Minh wished the remaining thousands of French Union prisoners the top of the Bastille season, expressing admiration for "the great French Revolution and its noble ideals," wishing his skeletal captives "merry festival and good health...
There was still no panic in the city, no discernible excitement around its shifting defense perimeter: the Viet Minh continued to harass as diligently as soldier ants; the French put on one or two counterattacks and claimed "appreciable" Communist losses. The artillery fire was all French-as it was at Dienbienphu before the Communists were ready. But the French and Vietnamese troops were now almost certain they would not be called upon to fight. "The gentlemen at Geneva have arranged it all," they would say. "Wait a few days. You will...
...Committee for the Defense of North Viet Nam, sent loudspeaker cars around the city "to improve the morale of the people" and he pledged himself to raise three new Vietnamese battalions; he also ordered all civil servants to sing the National Anthem every day. "The Viet Minh are not as strong as we have pretended they are," he told the Vietnamese who would listen...
...Saigon asked me why. I know who is winning. I told them in Saigon, and it is not you, nor your Western friends. I am going to be with the winners." In some villages, the Vietnamese peasants were seeing their future the same way: they were greeting the Viet Minh as liberators...