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...Demilitarized Zone, Giap grew up at a time when the fairly stable 30-year relationship between the French and Vietnamese was coming to an end. At 15, he was taking part in a "quit-school movement" in Hanoi. Before he was 30, he was helping Ho Chi Minh organize his revolution from a base in China. Though he once taught school in Hanoi, Giap was no bookstack scholar. Two years ago, Giap's foster father, a South Vietnamese Red Cross official in Danang, discussed Giap with British Orientalist P.J. Honey. "He was brilliant, extremely interested in warfare along...
...generally regarded as the chief architect of Hanoi's relentless crusade to take over the South. His pre-eminence is underscored by the fact that in recent weeks Hanoi newspapers have taken to calling him "Uncle" Le, an honorary title rarely used since the death of Ho Chi Minh...
...jailed by the French for 20 years for subversive activities, but was released in 1936 and resumed his work in the Indochinese Communist Party. When the party was outlawed in 1940, Le Duan was arrested again and sentenced to ten years. But when the Communist Viet Minh seized power temporarily in 1945, Le Duan was released. Subsequently he became the organizer and leader of guerrilla forces in what is now South Viet Nam. "In a real sense," says one U.S. expert, "he is the father of the present...
...Communists should continue the fight for total victory. According to P.J. Honey, a British specialist on Viet Nam, Le Duan even predicted to Ho that the U.S. would help South Viet Nam and that another war would eventually have to be fought. After the Geneva agreement, 90,000 Viet Minh guerrillas were moved to the North, but Le Duan ordered the other Communists of South Viet Nam to go underground and hide their arms. He told Ho that when war broke out again, there would be an armed Communist force intact in the South as well...
...during the struggle against first France, then Japan, and then France again. As a result of such coalescence, such fusion, the leadership of the Vietnamese revolution for independence and nationhood had largely fallen under the control of long indigenous Vietnamese Communists by the mid and late 1940s. Ho Chi Minh was the George Washington of Vietnam, whatever we may think of his politics, though like George Washington he had to struggle against "loyalist" pro-French elements within the bureaucracy, army and intelligentsia...