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...cordial contacts with Americans encouraged Ho to hope for U.S. support for his Viet Minh. Former TIME Correspondent Frank White, now a Time Inc. executive, recalls that early in 1946, when he was a U.S. Army major, he was invited by Ho to an official dinner in Hanoi. The guests included the top French, Chinese and British commanders and officials. White, the most junior officer and the only American, was seated next to Ho. "Mr. President," White whispered to Ho, "I think there is some resentment over the seating arrangements." "Yes," replied Ho, "I can see that. But whom else...
...Fenn: "The war is won. But we small and subject countries have no share, or very very small share, in the victory of freedom and democracy. Probably if we want to get a sufficient share, we have still to fight." He was right, of course. Ho and his Viet Minh colleagues approached the French as the Pacific war was ending and asked for a measure of autonomy and at least a pledge of eventual independence for Viet Nam. France dithered. In August 1945, the Viet Minh launched their revolution, and on Sept. 2, 1945, Ho proclaimed the Vietnamese republic...
...policies or will end the war." Communist defectors felt that Ho's death would cause deep morale problems among the Viet Cong, who admired Ho hugely. One defector noted that the guerrillas have long dreamed of seeing Ho riding triumphantly into Saigon, which then would be renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Nobody expects the V.C. to lay down their weapons because that dream has dissolved, but their righting spirit could be affected...
...South, as U.S. fighting men have painfully discovered, made excellent soldiers. Tough and well-disciplined, they stood their ground under massive American firepower, then rose to charge. And the battlefield was only one test: the struggle southward along the tangle of jungle paths called the Ho Chi Minh Trail often lasted four to six months, during which many perished of disease, malnutrition and exhaustion. If a trooper survived that trek, he had proved himself strong indeed?and there seems little question that the spirit imparted by Uncle Ho deserved a share of the credit. Ho's successors may be able...
...fact is that the North Vietnamese were reluctant either to suggest or to respond to new initiatives while Ho lay dying. As Historian Lacouture pointed out last week, the key men in Hanoi today are "the executors of Ho Chi Minh's political testament, which really is an appeal to resist to the end." If they are faithful lieutenants, they will not be quick to abandon his policies?or his dreams...