Word: minh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saigon last week, the French language newspaper Echo du Viet Nam, semi-official organ of the Viet Nam government, published the details of a massive military aid program undertaken by Red China on behalf of Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces in Indo-China...
...Asia, as elsewhere, Communism grows through force and deceit. In IndoChina-where Communist Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh party is carrying on a stubborn guerrilla war against the French-TIME Correspondent Andre Laguerre found people who understood Communism better than many a "sophisticated" Westerner. Laguerre's report...
Nguyen Duy Thanh, 41, has grey hair, soft brown eyes and a deceptively mild manner. He has been with Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh since 1945. In 1941 he was appointed general commanding Ho's Vietminh engineers, and from 1948 until two months ago was Ho's minister of industrial production. Said Nguyen Duy Thanh last week...
...Communist propaganda sneers at Bao Dai's phantom government, but nothing could be more phantomlike than Ho Chi Minh's cabinet. When we were not in session, no two cabinet ministers were allowed to be within 30 miles of each other. Cabinet meetings were held once a month, in different places in the mountains. It was quite usual for a minister to bicycle 60 miles to a meeting...
...Minh presides over the meetings. He used to arrive last, no one knew from where, preceded by secret police and accompanied by a small bodyguard. Cabinet meetings always opened in the same way. First we saluted the Vietminh* flag and observed a minute's silence for our dead. Then he would analyze the international situation...