As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
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Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.
And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every present-day Vietnamese, so strong is his imprint on the Vietnamese nation.
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.
During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.
Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
There's something Vichy about the French.
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.
There is a certain dignity to being French.
South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.
The Vietnamese see their history as an unending series of struggles of resistance to aggression, by the Chinese, the Mongols, the Japanese, the French, and now the Americans.
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