Word: vietminh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other southern Viet Nam (Cochin China). In the slender central region (An-nam), the mountains ripple almost down to the coast. Ho Chi Minh's Communist forces terrorize the coastal plains. In the south, terrorists make life unpleasant in the crowded Saigon region, and the Communist Vietminh haunts the marshes between the numberless arms of the Mekong River. In the northwest and southwest, as in the relatively unimportant kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia, the country is calm...
...Show. The Vietminh, completely dominated by the Communist Party of Indo-China, is a state as well as an army, recognized by the U.S.S.R. and her satellites, though the government has no capital and dares not sit for two successive days in the same place. Its chief is a 60-year-old Tonkinese agitator named Nguyen* Tat Thanh, who has a dozen aliases, of which the best known is Ho Chi Minh (One Who Shines...
...Minh and his government are prisoners of the sinister Tong Bo, the Communist Party Politburo, and in particular of five of its members, rising young extremists who really run the show. The most important is Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietminh's frail, passionate, 38-year-old Minister of National Defense. Vo Nguyen Giap, a Communist since his teens, was first arrested when he was 18. His wife died in a French jail four years ago. More than anyone else, he created the Vietminh army. A ruthless and bloodthirsty man, he has coldly directed the liquidation of anti-Communists...
...Show. Facing the Vietminh is a weak Vietnamese government without credit in the country. The chief of state and Descendant of Heaven, Emperor Bao Dai, is still a symbol commanding great respect, only some of which has been frittered away by his consistent neglect of public affairs...
...Chinese Reds, reported the French, have promised to supply their Indo-Chinese comrades with free arms and food, have already begun to train 20,000 Indo-Chinese Communist troops in the South China province of Yunnan. Several thousand other Vietminh troops in China are receiving instructions in heavy artillery and antiaircraft weapons...