Word: vietminh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Viet Nam government is sending me with a mission to India. My job will be to tell Nehru that the Vietminh is not nationalist, although there are many nationalists held by force in it, but Communist, and would enslave our people. Many people in the world are not yet experienced in the evil of Communism. They don't understand that Communism has two faces, an attractive one and a sad one, but the sad one is the true face...
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...
...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...
...Vietminh has grown hungry since the French occupied the rice fields of the Red River Delta a year ago. Rice in the mountains fetches 50 piastres ($2.50) a pound, and the black-market price of the Viet Nam piastre has gone up from 12 to 30 Vietminh piastres. I know Ho has sent some of his troops into China for short stays, so they could eat better...