Word: vietminh
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...ideas and words is a real war. Certainly the Chinese Communists recognize this. In many Southeast Asian countries the Red Star and Mao Tse-tung's face are among the most familiar sights; bookstores overflow with Communist propaganda produced locally or imported from Russia, China and Vietminh. In areas where literacy rates are generally very low the Communists have accepted the great truth that the spoken word, the whispering campaign and the picture cartoon are far more potent weapons than the written word...
...President Truman promised aid against Vietminh forces here...
...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...