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...during World War II, Vietnam was under French colonial rule. The subsistence production of the Vietnamese peasantry was used to support a class of landlords and the French colonial administration. This repression resulted in several unsuccessful peasant uprisings. The biggest, which occured in 1930, was led by Ho Chi Minh, an ardent Vietnamese nationalist who had studied Marxist revolutionary methods in Moscow...
...response to a leaflet distributed by the May 2nd committee on Mon., Feb. 8, contains several false assertions. To begin with, the committee's leaflet stated that "... Eisenhower remarks in his memoirs that there was no Southeast Asian expert he knew who was not certain Ho Chi Minh would have won a general national election." Mr. Overholt read this as "none of our experts were certain that Ho Chi Minh would have won." We refer him to page 372 of Mandate for Change...
...Splendid Significance." Next morning Kosygin flew on to Hanoi, and there the climate was warmer. Thousands turned out in welcome, and when Kosygin called on President Ho Chi Minh, the atmosphere was announced as "warm and friendly." Radio Hanoi gushed that the visit would be of "splendid significance," and in his arrival address Russia's Premier left little doubt why. He eulogized the North as "an inspiring example for the population of South Viet Nam against American and foreign interventionists and their puppets"-which was clear support for Hanoi's subversive war to take over the South...
...supplied from the North. More important, the war in South Viet Nam is carefully controlled from Hanol; every attack is carefully detailed according to the instructions of Mao Tse-Tung's handbook on guerilla warfare. The Viet Cong have paid much closer attention to their handbook than their Viot Minh counterparts in the days of war against the French; in particular there have been no set piece battles except Binh Gia and peasant indoctrination has been much more sophisticated. In the contrast of a (brilliant) masterplan, the May 2nd Committee's statement becomes mere distortions...
Eisenhowever is cited by the Committee as having stated that none of our experts were certain that Ho Ohi Minh would have won a general election. It's to bad they didn't cite a Southeast Asian; I don't think they could have found one to cite. I peat last year in Southeast Asia, is India, Thailand, Formosa, the Philippines. Everywhere I heard that Ho had once been regarded, and rightfully so, as the George Washington to Indochina. He had led his people against the imperialist French and, with General Giap, had waged a brilliant, tightly-organized campaign against...