Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bloody business in which a whole uniformed army of reformers had marched into peasant areas, declared martial law, stripped tiny landholders of their farms, and shipped thousands off to prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story...
...overpopulated province of Nghean, which lies south of Hanoi, is a troubled ground that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker printed a translation of a poem composed to extol his war in Indo-China by Viet Nam's spaghetti-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh. In one stanza Ho seemed to allow that sometimes he lounged back in headquarters, boozing it up while his boys were out sniping at the French: "Leisure after work/on army affairs; autumn wind/ autumn rain and autumn cold/ Chills; then one hears/the sound of flutes/coming through the hills;/guerrillas have returned/and I rejoice that wine enough/ is left for them...
...Indo-China was $1,100,00 a day; in Algeria France has no outside help, and costs run close to $1,700,000 a day. In Indo-China France fought with a professional army (Africans. German Legionnaires), of which less than 100,000 were Frenchmen, against a Viet Minh army operating, for the most part, out of clearly defined zones that could be attacked by tanks, artillery, and bombers. In Algeria twice as many French soldiers are engaged against rebels who fight in small bands of 50 or 100 that vanish under strong attack to fight again somewhere else...
...fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting the Viet Minh. The Geneva conference gave half of Indo-China to the Viet Minh, but Ba Cut refused to accept the decision, swore he would never cut his hair until Viet Nam was reunited...