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clear:right; margin:0 0 0.5em 0.3em; padding:0.5em 0 0.8em 1.4em;"><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Introduction">1 Introduction</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#First_Indochina_War">2 First Indochina War</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Charles_de_Gaulle">2.1 Charles de Gaulle</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Ho_Chi_Minh">2.2 Ho Chi Minh</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Franklin_D._Roosevelt">2.3 Franklin D. Roosevelt</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#Harry_S._Truman">2.4 Harry S. Truman</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#War_began">2.5 War began</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#1945_Sep_23">2.5.1 1945 Sep 23</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Resistance">2.6 Resistance</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Napalm_bombs">2.7 Napalm bombs</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11"><a href="#Publications">3 Publications</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Bich's_1962_paper,_summary">3.1 Bich's 1962 paper, summary</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13"><a href="#Vietnam,_China,_and_USSR">3.1.1 Vietnam, China, and USSR</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-14"><a href="#Le_Duan:_Reconquer_the_South">3.1.2 Le Duan: Reconquer the South</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-15"><a href="#Communist_pragmatism">3.1.3 Communist pragmatism</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16"><a href="#Rapid_industrialization">3.1.4 Rapid industrialization</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-17"><a href="#Agricultural_risk_of_failure">3.1.5 Agricultural risk of failure</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-18"><a href="#Famine,_conquest_of_rice">3.1.6 Famine, conquest of rice</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-19"><a href="#North-South_relation">3.1.7 North-South relation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-20"><a href="#Reunification_negotiation">3.1.8 Reunification negotiation</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#Notes">4 Notes</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#References">5 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#External_links">6 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/7/77/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png/150px-Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="220" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/7/77/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png/225px-Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/7/77/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png/300px-Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png 2x" data-file-width="427" data-file-height="626" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1931_Ecole_Polytechnique_2.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Nguyen Ngoc Bich 1931, student at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_polytechnique">École polytechnique</a>.</div></div></div> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/4/4d/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png/150px-Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="224" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/4/4d/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png/225px-Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/4/4d/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png/300px-Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png 2x" data-file-width="328" data-file-height="489" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_1933_X.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Nguyen Ngoc Bich, circa 1933, student at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_polytechnique">École polytechnique</a>.</div></div></div> Nguyễn Ngọc Bích (1911–1966) is a hero of the Vietnamese resistance against the French colonists<a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967b-1">[1]</a>:850. <a href="#Note_links">NOTE</a> <a href="#Primary_sources,_quotations">N.psq1</a> and revered as one of the most popular local heroes.<a href="#cite_note-Cooper.1970-2">[2]</a>:122 The <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich_Street.png" class="extiw" title="commons:File:Nguyen Ngoc Bich Street.png">Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich street</a> in the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%E1%BA%A7n_Th%C6%A1" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cần Thơ">Cần Thơ</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Vietnam">Vietnam</a>, was named after him to honor and commemorate his feats (of sabotaging bridges to slow down the colonial French-army advances) and heroism (being on the French most-wanted list,<a href="#cite_note-Cooper.1970-2">[2]</a>:122 imprisoned, subjected to an "intensive and unpleasant interrogation"<a href="#cite_note-Cooper.1970-2">[2]</a>:122 that left a mark on his forehead,<a href="#bich-injury">N.bi1</a> and exiled) during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>. A French-educated engineer and medical doctor, and an intellectual and politician, he proposed an alternative viewpoint to avoid the high-casualty, high-cost war between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vietnam" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:North Vietnam">North Vietnam</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Vietnam" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:South Vietnam">South Vietnam</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich-3">[3]</a> Upon graduating from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_polytechnique" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:École polytechnique">École polytechnique</a> (engineering military school under the French Ministry of Armed Forces) and then from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_des_ponts_ParisTech" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:École des ponts ParisTech">École nationale des ponts et chaussées</a> (civil engineering) in France in 1935,<a href="#cite_note-NNC.2018-4">[4]</a> Dr. <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> returned to Vietnam to work for the French colonial government. After World War II, in 1945, he joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a>,<a href="#Bich_Viet_Minh">N.bvm</a> and became a senior commander in the Vietnamese resistance movement, and insisted on fighting for Vietnam's independence, not for communism. Suspecting<a href="#NNBich-betrayed">N.bs</a> of being betrayed by the Communist faction<a href="#NNBich-betrayed">N.bs</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a> and apprehended by the French forces, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> was saved from execution by a campaign for amnesty by his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_polytechnique" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:École polytechnique">École polytechnique</a> classmates based in Vietnam, mostly high-level officers of the French army,<a href="#cite_note-Tran-Thi-Lien-5">[5]</a>: 299 and was subsequently exiled to France, where he founded with friends and managed the Vietnamese publishing house Minh Tan (in Paris), which published many important works for the Vietnamese literature,<a href="#Minh_Tan">N.mbl</a> in particular, the Sino-Vietnamese Dictionary, a key reference for many generations of writers and students for a standardized Vietnamese writing. To reprint this dictionary, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> wrote a moving open letter to the dictionary author Dao Duy Anh, who could not be located due to war time, to ask for permission.<a href="#VQL_Foreword">N.vqf</a> In parallel, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> studied medicine and became a medical doctor. He was highly regarded in Vietnamese politics, and was suggested by the French in 1954 as an alternative to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ngo Dinh Diem">Ngo Dinh Diem</a> as the sixth <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaders_of_South_Vietnam#Prime_Ministers" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Leaders of South Vietnam">prime minister</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Vietnam" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:State of Vietnam">State of Vietnam</a> under the former Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a> as Head of State,<a href="#cite_note-Langguth.2000-6">[6]</a>:84 who selected <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ngo Dinh Diem">Ngo Dinh Diem</a> as prime minister. While <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a>'s candidature for the 1961 presidential election in opposition to Diem was, however, declared invalid by the Saigon authorities at the last moment for "technical reasons",<a href="#cite_note-Honey.1962-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-NNC.2018-4">[4]</a>, he was "regarded by many as a possible successor to President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngo_Dinh_Diem" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ngo Dinh Diem">Ngo Dinh Diem</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Honey.1962-7">[7]</a> <a href="#Political_influence">N.pi</a>, <a href="#China_Quarterly">N.tcq</a> A large majority of the information in this article came from the master document Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography,<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a> which contains even more information, including primary-source evidence and photos, than presented here. Most images in the present article were uploaded for the first time at the time of the writing by the original writer.<a href="#Original_writer">N.vql</a> Important historical events that affected <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a>'s adult life, together with those mentioned in his 1962 paper (e.g., failed agrarian reform, napalm bombs, famine, conquest for rice, etc.) are summarized, in particular the atmosphere in which <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> had lived for ten years working for the French colonialists (from 1935 to 1945), and the historical conditions that drove this French-educated engineer to become a "Francophile anticolonialist"<a href="#Francophile_anticolonialists">N.fa1</a>, <a href="#Primary_sources,_quotations">N.psq2</a> and to join the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a> in 1945<a href="#Bich_Viet_Minh">N.bvm</a> (e.g., the French brutal repressions in 1940 and 1945, the power vacuum after the Japanese coup de force in 1945, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>'s call for a general uprising from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Chi%E1%BA%BFn_khu_T%C3%A2n_Tr%C3%A0o" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Chiến khu Tân Trào">Tân Trào</a>, the 1945 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Revolution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:August Revolution">August Revolution</a>, the Black Sunday on 1945 Sep 2 in Saigon, etc.). The key principle is to summarize a historical event only when it was directly related to <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a>'s activities. Care is exercised in selecting references and quotations that complement, but not duplicate, other Wikipedia articles at the time of this writing. For example, the history and the general use of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/napalm" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:napalm">napalm</a> bombs, which <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> mentioned in his 1962 article, are not summarized. Regarding the French using American-made <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/napalm" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:napalm">napalm</a> bombs in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>, well-known battles<a href="#Napalm_battles">N.nb</a> are also not summarized. <h2>First Indochina War</h2> The broader historic events of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:World War II">World War II</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>---specifically, the short interwar period between end of the former and the beginning of the later—led to the context in which <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Nguyen Ngoc Bich</a> fought the French colonists until he was captured. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hammer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ellen Hammer">Ellen J. Hammer</a> was the first American-born historian<a href="#Virginia_Thompson">N.vt</a> with a deep knowledge of the French colonial rule in Indochina in the early 1950s during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>. Dr. Hammer's<a href="#cite_note-Pace.2001-9">[9]</a> <a href="#Ellen_Hammer">N.ejh</a> highly influential book titled The Struggle for Indochina<a href="#cite_note-Hammer.1954-10">[10]</a> <a href="#Hammer_(1954)">N.ehb</a> ---published in 1954 well before the United States sent American troops to Vietnam in the 1960s---described the events, politics, and historic personalities leading to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>. Her works were considered among the must-read books by respected historians on Vietnam history, as Osborne (1967)<a href="#cite_note-Osborne.1967-11">[11]</a> wrote: "Indeed, any serious student of Viet-Nam will have either read Devillers,<a href="#Devillers_ref">N.pd</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Lacouture" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jean Lacouture">Lacouture</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_B._Fall" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bernard B. Fall">Fall</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hammer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ellen Hammer">Hammer</a> and Lancaster's<a href="#cite_note-Lancaster.1961-12">[12]</a> <a href="#Lancaster_book">N.dlb</a> studies already, or will be better served by reading them first hand." To give a historical context within which <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> fought the French colonists, there is no better English source to begin than Dr. Hammer's Vietnam-history book. The American dilemma---(1) To help the French to re-establish its colony in Vietnam or (2) To help free the Vietnamese from the yoke of French colonialism---was described by Hammer as follows: <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">American dilemma: Help the French or help the Vietnamese </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ The United States has entangled itself in a war in a distant corner of Asia in which it resolutely does not want to participate and from which it equally resolutely cannot abstain. It has committed itself to the cause of France [ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Indochina" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:French Indochina">French Indochina</a> ] and of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a>, but enough of the old spirit of anticolonialism is left to make this a somewhat unsavory commitment: it cannot bring itself wholly to ignore the fact that the free world looks less than free to a people whose country is being fought over by a foreign army. Aware that a lasting peace can be built only on satisfaction of the national aspirations of the Indochinese, the United States must at the same time conciliate a France reluctant to abandon her colonial past. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---Ellen Hammer (1954), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/struggleforindoc0000hamm_h0h0/page/n6/mode/2up">The struggle for Indochina</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/struggleforindoc0000hamm_h0h0/page/n15/mode/2up?q=march+6+free+state">Preface p. xii</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Hammer.1954-10">[10]</a>:xii </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> The activities directly or indirectly affected Bich's life by four historic individuals are summarized. French General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">de Gaulle</a>, by his desire to reconquer Indochina as a French colony, was a main force that led to the First Indochina War, in which <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> fought. Ho Chi Minh, founder and leader of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a>, called for the general uprising---against the French colonists and the Japanese occupiers---to which <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> responded. US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDR" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:FDR">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> ardent anticolonialism could have prevented the two Indochina wars, and changed the course of history. US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a> was a reason that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a> is now called the "French-American" War in Vietnamese literature,<a href="#cite_note-Lady.Borton.2020-13">[13]</a> and through his support for the French war effort supplied napalm bombs, which <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> mentioned in his 1962 paper. The US funded more than 30% of the war cost in 1952 under US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisenhower" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Eisenhower">Eisenhouer</a>, and "nearly 80%" in 1954 under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harry Truman">Truman</a>.<a href="#French-war_cost">N.fwc</a> <h3>Charles de Gaulle</h3> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:De-gaulle-radio.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/0/0c/De-gaulle-radio.jpg/200px-De-gaulle-radio.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="160" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/0/0c/De-gaulle-radio.jpg/300px-De-gaulle-radio.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/De-gaulle-radio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="353" data-file-height="282" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:De-gaulle-radio.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Charles de Gaulle speaking on the BBC, 1941</div></div></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/3/30/De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png/150px-De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="200" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/3/30/De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png/225px-De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/3/30/De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png/300px-De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png 2x" data-file-width="536" data-file-height="713" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:De_Gaulle_French_Union_1944.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">De Gaulle</a>'s ambition to restore French rule over Indochina, 1944</div></div></div> De Gaulle was a prime mover leading to the First Indochina War in which the French-educated <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> fought on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a> side against the French colonialists. At the beginning of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:World War II">World War II</a>, in his historic four-minute call-to-arms broadcast from London on 1940 June 18, later known as L'Appel du 18 Juin in French history, the mostly then unknown<a href="#de_Gaulle">N.cdg1</a> General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">de Gaulle</a> counted on the French Empire, with Indochina as the "Pearl of the Empire", rich in rubber, tin, coal, and rice,<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:28 to provide resources to fight the Axis, with the support of the British Empire and the powerful industry of the United States. Understanding that Indochina was under the menace of occupation by the Japanese, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">de Gaulle</a> harbored the dream of wresting this colony back into the fold of the French Empire, writing in his memoirs "As I saw her move away into the mist, I swore to myself that I would one day bring her back."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:25 <a href="#de_Gaulle_dream">N.dgd</a> On 1945 Mar 13, four days after the Japanese coup de force in Indochina (Mar 9), de Gaulle summoned US ambassador to France Jefferson Caffery<a href="#cite_note-Caffery.1945-15">[15]</a> to complain that the French army fighting in Indochina requested help from the US military authorities in China---headed by US General Wedemeyer<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1981-16">[16]</a> <a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:66 who followed closely the instructions of US President Roosevelt<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:67---but was told that "under instructions no aid could be sent."<a href="#cite_note-Caffery.1945-15">[15]</a> De Gaulle then played the Cold-War card, telling Caffery that France would fall into the sphere of influence of the USSR if the US did not support France to retake Indochina:<a href="#cite_note-Marr.1995-18">[18]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnam1945quest0000marr/page/242/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22On+the+13th%2C+General+Charles+de+Gaulle%22">243</a> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">De Gaulle to Caffery, 1945 March </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ Do you [the US] want us [France] to become... one of the federated states under the Russian aegis? The Russians are advancing apace. . . When Germany falls they will be upon us. If the public here comes to realize that you are against us in Indochina there will be terrific disappointment and nobody knows to what that will lead. We do not want to become Communist; we do not want to fall into the Russian orbit; but I hope that you do not push us into it. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">--- De Gaulle to Jefferson Caffery, US Ambassador to France, 1945 March<a href="#cite_note-Rotter.2007-19">[19]</a>:289 </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/d/d3/1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg/250px-1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="198" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/d/d3/1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg/375px-1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/d/d3/1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg/500px-1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2953" data-file-height="2339" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a> and French General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">de Gaulle</a>, White House, 1945 Aug 12.</div></div></div> "Within two weeks" of the death of US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDR" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:FDR">Franklin Delano Roosevelt</a> on 1945 Apr 12, de Gaulle pressured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a> on the Indochina issue, and his government launched "an intensive propaganda effort to mold world opinion in favor of the status quo (French control) in Indochina",<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:116 and this after having approved the Japanese occupation of Indochina since 1940 September 22.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:452 By the time General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">de Gaulle</a><a href="#de_Gaulle">N.cdg2</a> came to the US in 1945 Aug (inset photo) to campaign for US military aid from then US President <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Truman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harry Truman">Harry Truman</a>, the "French had been forced to drown several Vietnamese uprisings in blood. They had seen the colonial economy completely disrupted. They had been humiliated by the Germans in Europe and incarcerated by the Japanese in Indochina. Even to begin to reassert sovereignty in Indochina, the French were forced to go hat in hand to the Americans (see inset photo, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1945_Aug_12_de_Gaulle_Truman_White_House.jpg">de Gaulle visited Truman</a>), British, and Chinese."<a href="#cite_note-Marr.1984-21">[21]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamesetradit0000marr/page/412/mode/2up?q=%22and+incarcerated+by+the+Japanese+in+Indochina%22&view=theater">413</a> To restore French rule over Indochina, on 1945 Jun 7, as Chairman of the French Provisional Government (formed in 1944 Aug after the liberation of Paris), General de Gaulle appointed General Leclerc to establish and to command the French Expeditionary Corps.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:321-2 <a href="#Leclerc_accepted_assignment">N.laa</a> Even though Eisenhower headquarters recommended against Leclerc’s appointment in favor of General Carpentier,<a href="#cite_note-Vigneras.1957-23">[23]</a>:397 they did not follow up with this objection since the focus was on defeating Japan, but did inform the French that it would take several months to equip the French divisions.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:322 De Gaulle also appointed Admiral Thierry d’Argenlieu as High Commissioner of Indochina, the "French <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Rasputin">Rasputin</a>"<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:382 <a href="#d'Argenlieu_recall">N.dar</a> who later played a key role in sowing the seeds of the First Indochina War. <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Baodai2.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/8/8b/Baodai2.jpg/150px-Baodai2.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="202" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/8/8b/Baodai2.jpg/225px-Baodai2.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/8/8b/Baodai2.jpg/300px-Baodai2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="591" data-file-height="795" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Baodai2.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a></div></div></div> On 1945 Aug 20, just ten days before he abdicated on 1945 Aug 30,<a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication">N.bda</a> Vietnam Emperor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a> sent a moving plea to de Gaulle:<a href="#Bao_Dai_quote">N.bdq</a> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">Bao Dai to de Gaulle, 1945 Aug 20 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ I beg you to understand that the only means of safeguarding French interests and the spiritual inﬂuence of France in Indochina is to recognize the independence of Vietnam unreservedly and to renounce any idea of reestablishing French sovereignty or rule here in any form. . . . Even if you were to reestablish the French administration here, it would not be obeyed, and each village would be a nest of resistance. . . . We would be able to understand each other so easily and become friends if you would stop hoping to become our masters again. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">--- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a>, message to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">de Gaulle</a> on 1945 Aug 20<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:xiii–xiv </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/6/60/1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png/150px-1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="127" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/6/60/1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png/225px-1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/6/60/1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png/300px-1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="435" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:1945_May_Patti_in_Kunmiing.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a> Maj. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Patti" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Archimedes Patti">Archimedes Patti</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kunming">Kunming</a>, 1945 May.</div></div></div> Just a few days later on 1945 Aug 26 (or very shortly thereafter), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> put the resistance in much stronger terms to US <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a> Major <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Patti" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Archimedes Patti">Archimedes Patti</a>, who still remembered vividly after some 35 years:<a href="#HCM_quote1">N.hcm1</a> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:126px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Mus_(1902-1969),_expert_historian_on_Indochina,_Buddhism.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Paul_Mus_%281902-1969%29%2C_expert_historian_on_Indochina%2C_Buddhism.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="200" class="thumbimage" data-file-width="124" data-file-height="200" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Paul_Mus_(1902-1969),_expert_historian_on_Indochina,_Buddhism.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mus" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul Mus">Paul Mus</a> (1902-1969)</div></div></div> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">Ho Chi Minh to Archimedes Patti, 1945 Aug 26 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ If the French intended to return to Viet Nam as imperialists to exploit, to maim and kill my people, [I] could assure them and the world that Viet Nam from north to south would be reduced to ashes, even if it meant the life of every man, woman, and child, and that [my] government's policy would be one of scorched earth to the end. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">--- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> to OSS Maj. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes_Patti" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Archimedes Patti">Archimedes Patti</a><a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:4 </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> The Southeast Asia and Buddhism expert <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mus" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul Mus">Paul Mus</a>, who first met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> in 1945, recounted that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> said<a href="#cite_note-NYT_Paul_Mus_obituary-25">[25]</a> then:<a href="#Year_of_the_Pig">N.ytp1</a> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">Ho Chi Minh to Paul Mus, 1945 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ I have no army, no diplomacy, no finances, no industry, no public works. All I have is hatred, and I will not disarm it until I feel I can trust you [the French]. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">--- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mus" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul Mus">Paul Mus</a>, the New York Times 1969 obituary<a href="#cite_note-NYT_Paul_Mus_obituary-25">[25]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mus" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Paul Mus">Paul Mus</a> added "For every time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> has trusted us, we betrayed him."<a href="#Year_of_the_Pig">N.ytp2</a> War broke out on 1945 Sep 23,<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:115 with <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> joining the Viet Minh, an organization founded by Ho Chi Minh, to fight the French. <h3>Ho Chi Minh</h3> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/1/1d/Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf/page1-150px-Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="238" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/1/1d/Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf/page1-225px-Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/1/1d/Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf/page1-300px-Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="685" data-file-height="1085" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh_Declaration_of_Independence_1945_Sep_2.pdf" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> declaring Vietnam independence 1945 Sep 2.</div></div></div> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh,_Giap,_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Giap%2C_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png/200px-Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Giap%2C_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="149" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Giap%2C_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png/300px-Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Giap%2C_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/9/91/Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Giap%2C_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png/400px-Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Giap%2C_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png 2x" data-file-width="1025" data-file-height="766" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh,_Giap,_farewell_to_OSS_team_1945.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> and <a href="/wiki/Vo_Nguyen_Giap" title="Vo Nguyen Giap">Vo Nguyen Giap</a> giving a farewell party to the US Army intelligence Deer Team (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a>),<a href="#HCM_and_OSS">N.hos</a> 1945.</div></div></div> For thirty years, from 1912 when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> first visited Boston and New York City until about 1948-1949, Ho held out his hope that the US would provide military support for his anticolonialist resistance against the French.<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:xxii Since that visit to the US in his early twenties, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a>---like Bich, a Francophile anticolonialist,<a href="#Francophile_anticolonialists">N.fa2</a> <a href="#Primary_sources,_quotations">N.psq3</a> who was both a communist and a nationalist<a href="#Ho_communist_nationalist">N.hcn</a> ---developed a "lifelong admiration for Americans".<a href="#cite_note-Langguth.2000-6">[6]</a>:55 <a href="#Ho_admires_Americans">N.haa</a> Seizing on the opportunity of the Japanese entering Tonkin in 1940 September<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:452 to begin occupy Indochina (with French agreement)<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:452 to rid Vietnam of French colonial yoke,<a href="#Ho_insight_revolution">N.hir</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> (who was in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuzhou" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Liuzhou">Liuzhou</a>, China) returned to the China-Vietnam border and began a "training program for cadres".<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:452 Then on 1941 February 8,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:524 Ho crossed the border to enter Vietnam for the first time after 30 years away (from 1911 to 1941), and sheltered in cave Cốc Bó<a href="#cite_note-Brocheux.2007-26">[26]</a>:73 near the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:P%C3%A1c_B%C3%B3" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Pác Bó">Pác Bó</a> hamlet, in the Cao Bằng province, less than a mile from the Chinese border.<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:34 <a href="#Devillers_incorrect_info">N.dii</a> There <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> convened a plenum in 1941 May, and founded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a>, an anticolonialist organization that Bich joined in 1945.<a href="#Bich_Viet_Minh">N.bvm</a> On 1941 Sep 8, two months after the total integration of Indochina into the Japanese military system, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> (still known as Nguyen Ai Quoc at that time) in his call to arm to the people of Tonkin, announced the formation of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a> to "fight the French and Japanese fascism until the total liberation of Vietnam."<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:97 On 1941 Oct 25, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a> published its first manifesto: <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">Viet Minh first manifesto, 1941 Oct 25 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ Unification of all social strata, of all revolutionary organizations, of all ethnic minorities. Alliance with all other oppressed peoples of Indochina. Collaboration with all French anti-fascist groups. One goal: the destruction of colonialism and imperialist fascism. ❞ <a href="#Viet_Minh_manifesto">N.vmm</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_(2nd_from_right)_1945.06.07.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/d/d1/General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_%282nd_from_right%29_1945.06.07.png/200px-General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_%282nd_from_right%29_1945.06.07.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="148" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/d/d1/General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_%282nd_from_right%29_1945.06.07.png/300px-General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_%282nd_from_right%29_1945.06.07.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/d/d1/General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_%282nd_from_right%29_1945.06.07.png/400px-General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_%282nd_from_right%29_1945.06.07.png 2x" data-file-width="824" data-file-height="609" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:General_Chang_Fa-Kwei_(2nd_from_right)_1945.06.07.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Zhang_Fakui" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de:Zhang Fakui">Gen. Chang Fa-kwei</a> (2nd from right), US Kwangsi Command Headquarters, 1945 Jun 7</div></div></div> In 1942 August, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> (named "Nguyen Ai Quoc" at that time) crossed the border into China with the intention of attracting the interest of the Allies in Chungking<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:7 (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Chongqing">Chongqing</a>) for the Vietnamese resistance movement, arrested by the Chinese on 1942 August 28 for being "French spy",<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:525 but the real reason was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a>'s political activities, viewed as "Communistic", instead of "nationalistic", by the Chinese (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-shek" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Chiang Kai-shek">Chiang Kai-shek</a>) and the Allies at Chungking (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Chongqing">Chongqing</a>).<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:103 <a href="#Notes_on_Vietnam_history">N.vnh</a> Ho was detained for thirteen months, starting at the Tienpao prison,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:51 <a href="#Ho_Tienpao_prison">N.htp</a> moving through eighteen different prisons,<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:77 <a href="#Notes_on_Vietnam_history">N.vnh2</a> and ending up at Liuchow<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:46 (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuzhou" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Liuzhou">Liuzhou</a>), from where he was released on 1943 September 10, after changing his name from Nguyen Ai Quoc to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:453 At that time, the name "Nguyen Ai Quoc" was very popular, while hardly any one heard of the new name "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>".<a href="#Nguyen_Ai_Quoc">N.naq</a> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/3/3b/Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png/150px-Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="175" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/3/3b/Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png/225px-Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/3/3b/Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png/300px-Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png 2x" data-file-width="499" data-file-height="582" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Maj_Gen_Claire_Chennault_1945.07.23.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Maj. Gen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Chennault" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Claire Chennault">Claire Chennault</a> on 1945 Jul 23, four months after he met <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> on 1945 Mar 29.</div></div></div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> returned to Vietnam in 1944 September, after obtaining the authorization from the Chinese authority, Gen. Chang Fa-Kwei (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Zhang_Fakui" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de:Zhang Fakui">Zhang Fakui (German)</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Tr%C6%B0%C6%A1ng_Ph%C3%A1t_Khu%C3%AA" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Trương Phát Khuê">Trương Phát Khuê (Vietnamese)</a>) ---who was under "severe pressure from the Japanese Ichigo offensive" to obtain intelligence in Indochina---and after submitting the "Outline of the Plan for the Activities of Entering Vietnam".<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:134 <a href="#Ho_in_Vietnam_1944">N.hvn</a> All three protagonists---the French <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Vichy France">Vichy</a> colonialists, the Japanese occupiers, and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a>---were deceived by US war plan,<a href="#US_war_plan">N.uwp</a> and expected a US invasion of Indochina.<a href="#US_invasion_of_Indochina">N.uii</a> Such expectation was the main reason<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:209 that, in 1945 February-March, during an "unusually cold month of February,"<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:56 <a href="#Cold_February_1945">N.cf45</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> once again crossed back into China, and walked from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:P%C3%A1c_B%C3%B3" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Pác Bó">Pác Bó</a> hamlet to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kunming">Kunming</a> to meet<a href="#Walking_to_Kunming">N.wtk</a> (and to "make friends with"<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:210) American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_War_Information" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of War Information">OWI</a> (Office of War Information) officers to exchange intelligence.<a href="#Ho_met_OSS">N.hmo</a> <a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:238 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a>'s report to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a> mentioned the Japanese coup de force on the evening of 1945 March 9.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:238 In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kunming">Kunming</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> requested <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a> Lt. Charles Fenn<a href="#Fenn_helped_Ho">N.fhh</a> to arrange for a meeting with Gen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Chennault" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Claire Chennault">Claire Chennault</a>, commander of the Flying Tigers.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:58 In the meeting that occurred on 1945 Mar 29, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> requested a portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Chennault" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Claire Chennault">Chennault</a>, who signed across the bottom "Yours sincerely, Claire L. Chennault".<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:58 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> displayed the portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire_Chennault" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Claire Chennault">Chennault</a>, along with those of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lenin">Lenin</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Mao">Mao</a>, in his lodging at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Chi%E1%BA%BFn_khu_T%C3%A2n_Tr%C3%A0o" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Chiến khu Tân Trào">Tân Trào</a> as "tangible evidence to convince skeptical Vietnamese nationalists that he had American support".<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:58 As additional evidence, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> also possessed six brand-new US Colt .45 pistols in original wrappings that he requested and got from Charles Fenn.<a href="#cite_note-Fenn.1973-28">[28]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/hochiminhbiograp0000fenn/page/78/mode/2up?view=theater&q=pistols">79</a> <a href="#cite_note-Bartholomew-Feis.2006-29">[29]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/osshochiminhunex0000bart/page/158/mode/2up?q=%22pistols%22&view=theater">158</a> This "seemingly insignificant quantity" of arms,<a href="#Ho_gave_pistols">N.hgp</a> together with "Chennault's autographed photograph" as evidence, convinced other factions of the primacy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a>'s American-backing ruse worked.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:58 <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh,_Bao_Dai,_Siphanouvong_1945.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/b/b6/Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Bao_Dai%2C_Siphanouvong_1945.png/200px-Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Bao_Dai%2C_Siphanouvong_1945.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="134" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/b/b6/Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Bao_Dai%2C_Siphanouvong_1945.png/300px-Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Bao_Dai%2C_Siphanouvong_1945.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/b/b6/Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Bao_Dai%2C_Siphanouvong_1945.png/400px-Ho_Chi_Minh%2C_Bao_Dai%2C_Siphanouvong_1945.png 2x" data-file-width="714" data-file-height="477" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh,_Bao_Dai,_Siphanouvong_1945.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souphanouvong" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Souphanouvong">Souphanouvong</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>, Vinh Thuy (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a>), 1945 Sep 4</div></div></div> In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin_China" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cochin China">Cochin China</a> (the south),<a href="#Taberd_Cochin_China">N.tcc</a> where Bich lived and worked, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://indochine.uqam.ca/en/historical-dictionary/1464-trn-vn-giau-h-nam-hoang-trn-vn-19112010.html">Tran Van Giau</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Tr%E1%BA%A7n_V%C4%83n_Gi%C3%A0u" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Trần Văn Giàu">Trần Văn Giàu</a> in Vietnamese), a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> leader and "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>'s trusted friend",<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22the+Allies+with+arms%2C+equipment+and+training%22">186</a> on 1945 Aug 22 used <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a>'s ruse of "American backing for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a>", to convince other pro-Japanese nationalist groups (Phuc Quoc, Dai Viet, United National Front<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/524/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22United+National+Front%22">524</a>) and religious sects (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cao Dai">Cao Dai</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoa_Hao" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hoa Hao">Hoa Hao</a>) that they would be outlawed by the invading Allies, and thus should accept the leadership of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a>, which had strong support of "the Allies with arms, equipment and training".<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22the+Allies+with+arms%2C+equipment+and+training%22">186</a> Fearing a US invasion with the French colonialists helping, the Japanese initiated operation Bright Moon (Meigo sakusen), leading to a coup de force on 1945 March 9 to neutralize the French forces and to remove the French colonial administration in Indochina<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:65 (and thus the status of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a>'s job in the French colonial government). Two days later, on 1945 Mar 11, then Emperor Bao Dai abolished the "French-Annamite Treaty of Protectorate of 1884"<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:73 that put Vietnam under French protectorate, and proclaimed Vietnam independence:<a href="#Notes_on_Vietnam_history">N.vnh3</a> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">Bao Dai's proclamation of Vietnam independence, 1945 Mar 11 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ In view of the world situation, and that of Asia in particular, the Government of Viet-Nam publicly proclaims that from this day forward, the protectorate treaty with France is abolished and that the Country resumes its rights to independence. ❝ Viet-Nam will strive using its own means to develop itself to deserve the condition of an independent State and will follow the directives of the Greater East Asia Manifesto, considering itself as a member of the Greater East Asia, to contribute its resources to the common prosperity. Therefore, the Government of Viet-Nam trusts in the loyalty of Japan and is determined to collaborate with this country to achieve the aforementioned goal. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">--- Bao Dai, Hue, the 27th day of the 1st month of the 20th year Bao Dai (1945 Mar 11).<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:125 </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18,_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/0/07/Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18%2C_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG/200px-Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18%2C_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="142" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/0/07/Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18%2C_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG/300px-Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18%2C_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/0/07/Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18%2C_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG/400px-Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18%2C_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG 2x" data-file-width="718" data-file-height="511" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Leclerc_convoy_entered_Hanoi_1947_Mar_18,_French_and_Viet-Minh_flags.JPG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Leclerc's convoy entered Hanoi on 1946 Mar 18, flying both French and Viet-Minh flags.</div></div></div> The resulting power vacuum<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:64 following this coup de force changed the political situation, and provided a favorable setting for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> takeover of the government.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:73 In 1945 April, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> walked a perilous journey from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:P%C3%A1c_B%C3%B3" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Pác Bó">Pác Bó</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Chi%E1%BA%BFn_khu_T%C3%A2n_Tr%C3%A0o" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Chiến khu Tân Trào">Tân Trào</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> headquarters in the Liberated Area. There, on 1945 August 16, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a> called for a general uprising to throw out the Japanese occupiers that ultimately led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Revolution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:August Revolution">August Revolution</a>.<a href="#Power_vacuum_to_August_Revolution">N.pvar</a> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">Power vacuum yielded a bloodless revolution, 1945 Mar 9 - Aug 26 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ In August and September 1945, the white-bearded Ho Chi Minh emerged as the winner of the Indochina game. All along he had expected Japan to be defeated, and he had consistently sought to tie his own movement to the United States and Nationalist China. In 1945 he was guilty of the same false assumptions as the Japanese. He expected an Allied invasion and prepared himself for assisting the invading forces. Instead he got a power vacuum and a sudden Japanese surrender. This provided him with an occasion more favorable for bloodless revolution than he could ever have imagined. He then proclaimed the republic that would later defeat both France and the United States. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">--- Tonnesson 2007, Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship and Indochina: A reassessment.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:73 </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> Even though being a son of a <a href="/wiki/Cao_Dai" title="Cao Dai">Cao Dai</a> pope,<a href="#cite_note-Tram-Huong.2003-30">[30]</a> <a href="#cite_note-NNC.2018-4">[4]</a> <a href="#cite_note-NNC.2021-31">[31]</a> <a href="#Cao_Dai">N.cd</a> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> joined the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> in 1945,<a href="#Bich_joined_Viet_Minh">N.bjvm</a> instead of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cao Dai">Cao Dai</a> force. Under the pressure of a "strong resolution calling for Bao Dai's abdication" by the "leftist students and faculty" in Hanoi around 1945 Aug 20<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:185-6 and also by the Viet Minh,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:186 Bao Dai abdicated to become the "Supreme Advisor"<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:143 <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication">N.bda2</a> to the new government of Ho Chi Minh, who declared Vietnam independence on 1945 Sep 2,<a href="#HCM_Vietnam_Independence">N.hvi</a> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/b/b4/1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png/200px-1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="125" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/b/b4/1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png/300px-1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/b/b4/1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png/400px-1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png 2x" data-file-width="1216" data-file-height="763" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:1946_Ho_Chi_Minh_Leclerc_Sainteny_2.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Leclerc_de_Hauteclocque" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque">Leclerc</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sainteny" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jean Sainteny">Sainteny</a>, 1946 Mar 18.</div></div></div> After the August Revolution in 1945, the French began to negotiate their return to Tonkin with both the Viet Minh and the Chinese army coming to disarm the defeated Japanese north of the 16th parallel. Ho Chi Minh was weary of the Chinese, who might stay in Vietnam permanently, signed the March 6 [1946] Accords<a href="#March_6_Accords">N.m6a1</a> <a href="#March_6_Accords_jump3">N.m6a3</a> with Jean Sainteny to agree to let the French army under General Leclerc to enter Tonkin. On 1946 Mar 18, "General Leclerc led 1,200 troops and 220 vehicles," bearing both French and Viet-Minh flags, "into Hanoi to the relief and delight of more than ten thousand French civilians who had gathered along Trang Tien Street to cheer and sing” the French national anthem.<a href="#cite_note-Marr.2007-32">[32]</a>:90 After his entry into Hanoi, "Leclerc quickly established cordial relations with Ho Chi Minh."<a href="#cite_note-Gunn.2013-33">[33]</a> CBS reporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schoenbrun" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:David Schoenbrun">David Schoenbrun</a> interviewed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> on 1946 Sep 11, the same day that a telegram was dispatched from the High Commissioner d'Argenlieu to the French Indochina Committee on the arrest of <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> on 1946 Aug 25.:<a href="#NNC.VQL.2023">N.bb</a> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">CBS Schoenbrun interviewed Ho Chi Minh, 1946 Sep 11 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ President Ho, how can you possibly fight a war against the modern French army? You have nothing. You've just told me, what a poor country you are. You don't even have a bank, let alone an army, and guns, and modern weapons, the French planes, tanks, napalm. How can you fight the French? ❝ And he [Ho] said: Oh we have a lot of things that can match the French weapons. Tanks are no good in swamps. And we have swamps in which the French tanks will sink. And we have another secret weapon, it's nationalism. And don't think that a small ragged band cannot fight against a modern army. It will be a war between an elephant and a tiger. If the tiger ever stands still the elephant will crush him and pierce him with his mighty tusks. But the tiger of Indochina is not going to stand still. We're going to hide in our jungles by day and steal out by night. And the tiger will jump on the back of the elephant and tear huge chunks out of his flesh and then jump back into the jungle. And after a while the mighty elephant will bleed to death. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">--- CBS reporter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Schoenbrun" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:David Schoenbrun">David Schoenbrun</a>, Youtube video <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWY9KbIXpdI&t=190s">French involvement in Vietnam & Dien Bien Phu - 1962, time 3:10</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Giniger.1984-34">[34]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> wrote about the French use of American-made napalm bombs; see Section <a href="#Napalm_bombs">Napalm bombs</a>. <h3>Franklin D. Roosevelt</h3> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/7/77/FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg/150px-FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="181" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/7/77/FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg/225px-FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/7/77/FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg/300px-FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2444" data-file-height="2952" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:FDR_1944_Portrait.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, circa 1944</div></div></div> If <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Franklin D. Roosevelt">FDR</a>) had lived beyond 1945 Apr 12, when he died, he "would have tried to keep France from forcibly reclaiming control of Indochina, and might well have succeeded, thereby changing the flow of history,"<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:710 meaning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a> with more than half a million deaths,<a href="#French_War_casualties">N.fwc</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Second Indochina War">Second Indochina War</a> with more than three million deaths,<a href="#American_War_casualties">N.awc</a> would be avoided; then <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> would not join the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> to fight the French colonialists. FDR blamed European empires for wars: "European colonialism had helped bring on both the First World War and the current one, he was convinced, and the continued existence of empires would in all likelihood result in future conflagrations."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:46 "What is more, like Wilson, he [FDR] emerged from World War I convinced that the scramble for empire not only had set the European powers against one another and created the conditions that led to war, but also worked against securing a negotiated settlement during the fighting."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:47 In WWII, FDR believed that "France had ceased to exist," despite having the strongest army in Europe, <a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:27 and thought that European countries (France and Germany) could not live together peacefully: Both FDR and his Secretary of State Cordell Hull "believed that Franco-German disputes lay at the root of much of Europe's inability to maintain the peace".<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:44 <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/1/1f/Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg/200px-Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="165" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/1/1f/Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg/300px-Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/1/1f/Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg/400px-Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg 2x" data-file-width="740" data-file-height="610" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Atlantic_Charter_FDR-Churchill.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Roosevelt and Churchill, The Atlantic Charter conference, 1941</div></div></div> Moreover, de Gaulle's Indochina cause was hampered as FDR disliked de Gaulle's pomposity, egotism, and "his serene confidence that he represented the destiny of the French people."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:44 "In social interaction, de Gaulle was as austere and pompous as FDR was relaxed and jovial."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:44 That both de Gaulle and the Vichy government wanted to preserve the French Empire further “enhanced Roosevelt’s disdain" for de Gaulle.<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:46 Cordell Hull was convinced that "de Gaulle was a fascist and an enemy of the United States."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:45 By the time of Pearl Harbor, FDR had become a "committed anticolonialist,"<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:46 who wanted "complete independence for all or almost all European colonies",<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:74 as evidenced by his speech in March 1941: <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ There has never been, there isn't now, and there never will be, any race of people on earth fit to serve as masters over their fellow men.… We believe that any nationality, no matter how small, has the inherent right to its own nationhood. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, address to White House Correspondents' Association, March 1941.<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:72 </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDR" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:FDR">Roosevelt</a>'s anti-colonialist speech was subsequently encoded in the third point of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Charter" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Atlantic Charter">The Atlantic Charter</a>,<a href="#Complete_Atlantic_Charter">N.cac</a> which Churchill was reluctant to agree to, worrying that it would affect the British colonies:<a href="#Churchill,_Atlantic_Charter">N.chac</a> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%">The Atlantic Charter, 1941 </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ Third, they<a href="#They_in_Atlantic_Charter">N.tac</a> respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live; and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them; ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Charter" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Atlantic Charter">The Atlantic Charter</a>, August 14, 1941.<a href="#cite_note-FRUS-Atlantic.1941-35">[35]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/9/9d/Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png/200px-Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="138" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/9/9d/Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png/300px-Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/9/9d/Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png/400px-Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png 2x" data-file-width="522" data-file-height="360" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Hurley_Chiang_Kai-Shek_Chennault_Wedemeyer_1945.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>US ambassador Hurley, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, Gen. Claire Chennault, Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, 1945</div></div></div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Charter" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Atlantic Charter">The Atlantic Charter</a> inspired Third-World countries from Algeria to Vietnam in their fight for independence,<a href="#cite_note-FRUS-Atlantic.1941-35">[35]</a> as Ho Chi Minh often referred to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Atlantic_Charter" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The Atlantic Charter">The Atlantic Charter</a> in his letters to US government officials: “the carrying out of the Atlantic and San Francisco Charters implies the eradication of imperialism and all forms of colonial oppression,” wrote Ho Chi Minh to US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a> administration on 1945 Oct 22.<a href="#cite_note-Ho_to_Byrnes.1945-36">[36]</a>:2 <a href="#Ho_Atlantic_Charter">N.hac</a> One of Roosevelt's great war aims was to liberate the Indochinese, whom he dismissed as "a people of small stature," from the French colonialism.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:1 FDR envisioned a new world order in which the "four policemen," i.e., the US, the USSR, Great Britain and China, would maintain peace in the world. He discussed this concept with Stalin in Tehran in 1943.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:60 But failing to build up China as a great power, FDR encountered difficulties with his vision for Indochina.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:60 Yet, despite the "accepted wisdom" of historians prior to 2007 that (1) "Roosevelt abandoned or watered down his Indochina policy before he died," and (2) "the Truman administration built upon Roosevelt’s policy revision by endorsing the French return to Indochina," a 2007 argument was presented that "Roosevelt, though he was under pressure to abandon his policy, did not yield before he died."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:60 <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:FDR_on_1945_Apr_11,_the_day_before_he_died.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/c/c0/FDR_on_1945_Apr_11%2C_the_day_before_he_died.jpg/150px-FDR_on_1945_Apr_11%2C_the_day_before_he_died.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="186" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/c/c0/FDR_on_1945_Apr_11%2C_the_day_before_he_died.jpg/225px-FDR_on_1945_Apr_11%2C_the_day_before_he_died.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/c/c0/FDR_on_1945_Apr_11%2C_the_day_before_he_died.jpg/300px-FDR_on_1945_Apr_11%2C_the_day_before_he_died.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="497" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:FDR_on_1945_Apr_11,_the_day_before_he_died.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>FDR on 1945 Apr 11,<a href="#Before_FDR_died">N.brd</a> the day before he died.<a href="#FDR_died">N.frd</a></div></div></div> Even though US intelligence (through "intercepted Japanese diplomatic messages"<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:65) knew about the Japanese's concern of a US invasion and their plan to topple the French colonial government in Indochina since as early as 1945 Feb 11, none of this information was passed on to de Gaulle.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:65 On 1945 Mar 8, the day before the Japanese coup de force, Roosevelt ordered Lt Gen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_C._Wedemeyer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Albert C. Wedemeyer">Albert C. Wedemeyer</a>---US commander of the China Theater, which included "mainland China, Manchuria, and Indochina, plus all the offshore islands, except Taiwan," and who began his assignment at the end of 1944 Oct<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:14 --- "not to hand over supplies---any supplies at all---to French forces operating in Asia."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:66 "By fuelling French and Japanese expectations of a US invasion, Roosevelt, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_C._Wedemeyer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Albert C. Wedemeyer">Wedemeyer</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a> prompted a Franco-Japanese confrontation [i.e., the Japanese coup de force on 1945 March 9], which in turn paved the way for revolution,"<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:220 i.e., the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Revolution" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:August Revolution">August Revolution</a> in 1945, the year <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> joined the Viet Minh to fight the French. On 1945 Mar 23, FDR "wanted to know what Wedemeyer could do to arm local resistance groups opposed to French rule."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:67 Wedemeyer wrote in a cable in 1945 May: "When talking to the President on my last visit he explained the United States policy for FIC [French Indochina] and told me that I must watch carefully to prevent British and French political activities in the area and that I should give only such support to the British and French as would be required in direct operations against the Japanese."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:67 Wedemeyer "continued to carry out Roosevelt’s directives on Indochina well after the President’s death,"<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:18 and squabbled with Lord Mountbatten, head of South-East Asia Command (SEAC), over "which commander held responsibility for military operations in Indochina."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:88 Mountbatten, the Supremo, asked Gen. Leclerc, who left Paris on 1945 Aug 17 on his way to reconquer Indochina under the order of de Gaulle, to first come to Kandy, Sri Lanka, SEAC headquarters.<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:152 When Leclerc arrived on 1945 Aug 22, Mountbatten told him, "If Roosevelt had lived, you would not go to Indochina."<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:153 <a href="#Mountbatten_to_Leclerc">N.mtl</a> <h3>Harry S. Truman</h3> <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_S._Truman.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/c/cf/Harry_S._Truman.jpg/150px-Harry_S._Truman.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="192" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/c/cf/Harry_S._Truman.jpg/225px-Harry_S._Truman.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/c/cf/Harry_S._Truman.jpg/300px-Harry_S._Truman.jpg 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="447" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Harry_S._Truman.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div><a href="/wiki/Harry_S._Truman" title="Harry S. Truman">Harry S. Truman</a>, circa 1945</div></div></div> Truman reversed Roosevelt’s commitment to free Indochina of French colonialism, allowing the French to reconquer Cochin-china with the help of the British, leading to The First Indochina War, with <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> fighting the French. Roosevelt had selected Truman as his Vice President because Truman was more moderate than the previous left-leaning VP Henry Wallace.<a href="#cite_note-OBrien.2024-37">[37]</a> But Roosevelt kept Truman in the dark about foreign policies, met Truman only six times, and only one time alone without aides. Truman did not have experience in international relations, and was kept so, particularly about the important Yalta Conference in 1945 February, where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the new world order.<a href="#cite_note-OBrien.2024-37">[37]</a> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/8/8c/Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png/200px-Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="132" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/8/8c/Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png/300px-Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/8/8c/Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png/400px-Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png 2x" data-file-width="782" data-file-height="515" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Potsdam_Truman_Churchill_Stalin_1945_Jul_17.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Potsdam Truman Churchill Stalin 1945 Jul 17</div></div></div> After the secretive FDR (who "never wrote down, and rarely discussed, a concrete vision for the postwar world"<a href="#cite_note-OBrien.2024-37">[37]</a>) died, "U.S. policy fell into the hands of Truman, who had no idea what Roosevelt had really wanted to achieve or how he had planned to achieve it. Over the coming three years, Truman would take this ignorance, combined with Stalin’s strategic overreach and blundering, and create the Cold War that Roosevelt had always been keen to avoid."<a href="#cite_note-OBrien.2024-37">[37]</a> To maintain the appearance of continuing Roosevelt’s policy regarding Indochina, as Truman "did not want to convey the impression that his [Indochina] policy was at odds with Roosevelt’s,"<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:70 it took Truman close to two months, from the death of Roosevelt on 1945 Apr 12, until 1945 Jun 7 (the date of the telegram from Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew, on behalf of Truman, to US Ambassador Patrick Hurley),<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:72 <a href="#US_Ambassador_Hurley">N.uah</a> to provide American officials in the Far East (US Ambassador Patrick Hurley and Gen Wedemeyer, US commander of China Theater) with "less than clear" policy regarding Indochina, "portraying change as continuity" of Roosevelt's policy of not letting the French reconquer Indochina as a colony.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:71 <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/7/79/Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png/200px-Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png" decoding="async" width="200" height="153" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/7/79/Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png/300px-Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/7/79/Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png/400px-Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png 2x" data-file-width="792" data-file-height="605" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Potsdam_Stalin_Truman_Gromyko_Byrnes_Molotov_1945_Jul_18.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Potsdam Stalin Truman Gromyko Byrnes Molotov 1945 Jul 18</div></div></div> Truman's ("less than clear") US policy is described by Grew as follows: "It is the President's intention at some appropriate time to ask that the French Government give some positive indication of its intentions in regard to the establishment of civil liberties and increasing measures of self-government in Indo-China before formulating further declarations of policy in this respect."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:71 Under the threat of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, Truman did not want to “have a conflict with France and Britain”<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:70 over the insistence of these countries to reconquer their lost colonies, effectively abandoning Roosevelt’s trusteeship plan for Indochina. Hurley and Wedemeyer "continued to operate in the shadow of FDR."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:70 <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/c/cc/Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png/150px-Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="176" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/c/cc/Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png/225px-Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/c/cc/Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png/300px-Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png 2x" data-file-width="574" data-file-height="673" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Wedemeyer_in_China_1945_b.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>US Gen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_C._Wedemeyer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Albert C. Wedemeyer">Albert C. Wedemeyer</a>, China, 1945</div></div></div> As a result, "lacking clear directives from Truman, US military and intelligence agencies remained uncertain of their government's Indochina policy. Some of them therefore continued to apply Roosevelt's anti-French policy."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:19 French official <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Sainteny" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jean Sainteny">Jean Sainteny</a> lamented that he was "face to face with a deliberate Allied maneuver to evict the French from Indochina and that at the present time the Allied attitude is more harmful than that of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet-Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet-Minh">Viet-Minh</a>."<a href="#cite_note-Fall.1966-38">[38]</a>:68-69 <a href="#NNC-VQL-more-details">N.bq2</a> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ General Wedemeyer's orders not to aid the French came directly from the War Department. Apparently it was American policy then that French Indochina would not be returned to the French. The American government was interested in seeing the French forcibly ejected from Indochina so the problem of postwar separation from their colony would be easier. . . . While American transports in China avoided Indochina, the British flew aerial supply missions for the French all the way from Calcutta, dropping tommy guns, grenades and mortars. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---Bernard B. Fall (1966), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/twovietnams0000unse/page/n7/mode/2up">The Two Viet-Nams: A political and military analysis</a>, p.57.<a href="#cite_note-Fall.1966-38">[38]</a>:57 </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> Three months after Roosevelt's death, at the Potsdam Conference in 1945 July, the US adopted a neutral stance regarding the French return to Indochina: "The United States would not obstruct the restoration of French sovereignty, but neither would it give active backing,"<a href="#cite_note-Lawrence.2007b-39">[39]</a>:112 contrary to what the British had hoped for, which was "active American support of French aims" of reconquering Indochina.<a href="#cite_note-Lawrence.2007b-39">[39]</a>:111 Still, the partition of Indochina, with the Chinese in the north of the 16th parallel, and the British in the south, represented a "significant British victory," since London now had "an opportunity to reinstall a French military and administrative presence below the sixteenth parallel, a foothold that France could presumably exploit to recover the rest of the country from Chinese control."<a href="#cite_note-Lawrence.2007b-39">[39]</a>:112 <div class="center"><div class="thumb tnone"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:652px;"><a href="/wiki/File:OSS_Deer_Team_Vietnam-American_Army.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/d/d6/OSS_Deer_Team_Vietnam-American_Army.jpg/650px-OSS_Deer_Team_Vietnam-American_Army.jpg" decoding="async" width="650" height="210" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/d/d6/OSS_Deer_Team_Vietnam-American_Army.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="714" data-file-height="231" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:OSS_Deer_Team_Vietnam-American_Army.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The Deer Team and the Viet Minh, the "Vietnam-America troops,"<a href="#Vietnam-America_troops">N.vat</a> 1945 Aug 16, on their way to attack a Japanese garrison at Thai Nguyen before reaching Hanoi.</div></div></div></div> On the other hand, if the US had let the British control the whole of Indochina, the French would "most likely have been able to oust Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary government from Hanoi in the fall of 1945, thus immediately provoking general warfare."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:23 It was "the presence of a large Chinese army that allowed the Viet Minh to establish itself as the leading force in the new republic, with a legitimate claim to representing the southern part of the nation as well,"<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:23 where <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> had joined the Viet Minh to fight the French. <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerycaption">Déjà Vu: 'Americans had different dreams from the French, but followed the same footsteps.' Bernard B. Fall</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 385.33333333333px"><div style="width: 385.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 383.33333333333px;"><div style="margin:0px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:1stIndochinaWar001.jpg" class="image" title="French Marines wading ashore off the coast of Annam (Central Vietnam) in July 1950, using US-supplied ships, weapons, equipment. Quote by Bernard Fall in gallery title.[14]:702"><img alt="French Marines wading ashore off the coast of Annam (Central Vietnam) in July 1950, using US-supplied ships, weapons, equipment. Quote by Bernard Fall in gallery title.[14]:702" src="/wiki/images/thumb/8/86/1stIndochinaWar001.jpg/575px-1stIndochinaWar001.jpg" decoding="async" width="384" height="250" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/8/86/1stIndochinaWar001.jpg/864px-1stIndochinaWar001.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/8/86/1stIndochinaWar001.jpg/1151px-1stIndochinaWar001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="978" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> French Marines wading ashore off the coast of Annam (Central Vietnam) in July 1950, using US-supplied ships, weapons, equipment. Quote by Bernard Fall in gallery title.<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:702 </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 326px"><div style="width: 326px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 324px;"><div style="margin:0px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:Marines_Da_Nang_Vietnam_1965.04.30.png" class="image" title="US Marines wading ashore in Da Nang, Central Vietnam, on 1965 Apr 30, exactly 10 years before the fall of Saigon on 1975 Apr 30."><img alt="US Marines wading ashore in Da Nang, Central Vietnam, on 1965 Apr 30, exactly 10 years before the fall of Saigon on 1975 Apr 30." src="/wiki/images/thumb/0/03/Marines_Da_Nang_Vietnam_1965.04.30.png/486px-Marines_Da_Nang_Vietnam_1965.04.30.png" decoding="async" width="324" height="250" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/0/03/Marines_Da_Nang_Vietnam_1965.04.30.png/729px-Marines_Da_Nang_Vietnam_1965.04.30.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Marines_Da_Nang_Vietnam_1965.04.30.png 2x" data-file-width="769" data-file-height="594" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> US Marines wading ashore in Da Nang, Central Vietnam, on 1965 Apr 30, exactly 10 years before the fall of Saigon on 1975 Apr 30. </div> </div></li> </ul> <h3>War began</h3> Two camps of historians chose two different dates for the start of the First Indochina War: Either 1945 Sep 23, or more than a year later, 1946 Dec 19. Of these two dates, 1945 Sep 23 is more relevant to <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> since he had been captured on 1946 Aug 25,<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a> before 1946 Dec 19. <h4>1945 Sep 23</h4> The First Indochina War started on 1945 September 23 with the brutal repression of the Vietnamese by some 1,400 French soldiers, who had been imprisoned by the Japanese, then freed and re-armed by British General Gracey, and who went on a rampage, beating, lynching any Vietnamese they saw on the street.<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:115 French war correspondent Germaine Krull, who arrived in Saigon on 1945 Sep 12 with the British Gurkhas soldiers and a small group of French soldiers,<a href="#British-French_arrived">N.bfa</a> was likely the first to mark the start of the First Indochina War on this date, as she described in her "most graphic, vivid, and absorbing" report<a href="#Moffat_memo_on_Krull">N.mok</a> what she had witnessed "with her own eyes": <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ It is impossible to describe this day, which marked the beginning of the war in Indo-China. I saw everything with my own eyes - Annamites [Vietnamese] tied up, some of them tortured, drunken officers and soldiers with smoking guns. On the Rue Catinat, I saw soldiers driving before them a group of Annamites bound, slave-fashion, to a long rope. Women spat in their faces. They were on the verge of being lynched. In more distant sections I saw French soldiers come out of Annamite houses with stolen shoes and shirts… From time to time, an Annamite dwelling would burst into flame. Women and children were fleeing. That night, French soldiers strolled on the Rue Catinat, a gun on one arm, a woman on the other. I have never been so deeply ashamed as on that day of September 23rd. When I returned to the hotel, the faces of the English were expressionless and conversations stopped as I went by. I remember the horror and shame I had felt in June of 1940 when Vichy was established, but never in my life had I felt such utter sadness and degradation as on this night. That night I realized only too well what a serious mistake we had made and how grave the consequences would be. It was the beginning of a ruthless war. Instead of regaining our prestige we had lost it forever, and worse still, we had lost the trust of the few remaining Annamites who believed in us. We had showed them that the new France was even more to be feared than the old one. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---Germaine Krull (1945), Diary of Saigon, following the Allied occupation in September 1945.<a href="#cite_note-Krull.1945-40">[40]</a>:19 </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> This date, 1945 Sep 23, "would go down in history: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Tr%E1%BA%A7n_V%C4%83n_Gi%C3%A0u" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Trần Văn Giàu">Trần Văn Giàu</a>, a key communist leader of the southern Viet Minh, announced that "the war of Resistance has begun!" Vietnam's armed struggle against the French had started. It would last nine more years."<a href="#cite_note-McHale.2021-41">[41]</a>:45 Giau issued the following call for armed struggle to throw out the French, addressing to his Vietnamese compatriots, including those who were working for the French colons like <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a>: <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝Compatriots of the South! People of Saigon! Workers, farmers, youth, self-defense, militia, soldiers! Last night, the French colonialists occupied our government headquarters in the center of Saigon. Thus, France began to invade our country once again. On September 2, our compatriots swore to sacrifice their last drop of blood to protect the independence of the Fatherland: "Independence or death!" Today, the Resistance Committee calls on: All compatriots, old, young, men, and women, take up arms and rush to fight off the invaders. Anyone who does not have a duty assigned by the Resistance Committee must immediately leave the city. Those who remain must: – Not work, not serve as soldiers for the French. – Not show the way, not inform the French. – Not sell food to the French. – Find the French colonialists and destroy them. – Burn all French offices, vehicles, ships, warehouses, and factories. Saigon occupied by the French must become a Saigon without electricity, without water, without markets, without shops. Fellow countrymen! From this moment on, our top priority is to destroy the French invaders and their henchmen. Fellow soldiers, militiamen, and self-defense members! Hold your weapons firmly in your hands, charge forward to drive out the French colonialists, and save the country. The resistance war has begun! Morning of September 23, 1945 Chairman of the Southern Resistance Committee TRAN VAN GIAU ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---Trần Văn Giàu 2011, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.diendan.org/tai-lieu/hoi-ky-t-v-giau/hk-tvg-xvii">HỒI KÝ TRẦN VĂN GIÀU (XVII)</a> [Memoirs of Tran Van Giau, Vol.17], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.diendan.org/">diendan.org</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230327082251/https://www.diendan.org/tai-lieu/hoi-ky-t-v-giau/hk-tvg-xvii/">Internet Archive 2023.03.27</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> "Thus began, it could be argued, the Vietnamese war of liberation against France. It would take several more months before the struggle would extend to the entire south, and more than a year before it also engulfed Hanoi and the north, which is why historians typically date the start of the war as late 1946 [Dec 19].<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:xii But this date, September 23, 1945, may be as plausible a start date as any."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:115 <h3>Resistance</h3> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/d/d5/Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png/250px-Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/d/d5/Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png/375px-Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/d/d5/Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png/500px-Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1066" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Cai_Rang_bridge_today.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Cai Rang bridge, Can Tho, 2024. Nguyen Ngoc Bich sabotaged this bridge during the First Indochina War.</div></div></div> After graduating in 1935 from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_des_ponts_ParisTech" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:École des ponts ParisTech">École nationale des ponts et chaussées</a>, a civil engineering school, Nguyen Ngoc Bich returned home to work as a civil engineer for the colonial government at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soc_Trang" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Soc Trang">Soc-Trang</a> Irrigation Department until the Japanese coup d'état in Viet Nam (1945 Sep 03). Bich then joined the Resistance in the Soc-Trang base area and was appointed Deputy Commander of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_Military_Region_(Vietnam_People%27s_Army)" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:9th Military Region (Vietnam People's Army)">Military Zone 9</a> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qu%C3%A2n_khu_9,_Qu%C3%A2n_%C4%91%E1%BB%99i_nh%C3%A2n_d%C3%A2n_Vi%E1%BB%87t_Nam">vi</a>), established on 1945 Dec 10, and included the provinces of Cần Thơ, Sóc Trăng, Rạch Giá, together with six other provinces. Bich sabotaged many bridges that were notoriously difficult to destroy such as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/C%E1%BA%A7u+C%C3%A1i+R%C4%83ng,+Ninh+Ki%E1%BB%81u,+C%E1%BA%A7n+Th%C6%A1,+Vietnam/@10.0075615,105.7499666,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x31a089ba70b1c3b5:0xbddcccf9f6fadd75!8m2!3d10.0075615!4d105.7499666!16s%2Fg%2F1jkxqlp4t">Cai-Rang Bridge</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can_Tho" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Can Tho">Can Tho</a> --- where a street was named to honor his feats<a href="#cite_note-CTDN.2019-42">[42]</a> <a href="#NNB_street">N.nnbs</a> --- <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/C%E1%BA%A7u+Nhu+Gia,+M%E1%BB%B9+Xuy%C3%AAn,+S%C3%B3c+Tr%C4%83ng,+Vietnam/@9.5026064,105.8508548,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x31a1ab6d2c09bbf7:0x4c0acc20832a1059!8m2!3d9.5026064!4d105.8530435!16s%2Fg%2F1v41xyrv">Nhu-Gia Bridge</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soc_Trang" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Soc Trang">Soc Trang</a>, etc., blocking the advance of French forces directed by General Valluy and General Nyo, who were under the general command of General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Leclerc_de_Hauteclocque" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque">Philippe Leclerc</a>, commander of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Far_East_Expeditionary_Corps" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:French Far East Expeditionary Corps">French Far East Expeditionary Corps</a> (Corps expéditionnaire français en Extrême-Orient, CEFEO). Between 1946 March 6, when the March 6 Accords were signed,<a href="#March_6_Accords">N.m6a3</a> and 1946 December 19, when most historians used as the date that started the First Indochina War, in Cochinchina, the military situation did not favor the Vietnamese. <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ Outside Saigon the various nationalist resistance groups, weakened though they were by the months of warfare with the British and French, still controlled large sections of the Cochin Chinese countryside. Ho Chi Minh proposed to General Leclerc the sending of mixed Franco-Vietnamese commissions to establish peace in Cochin China after the signing of the March 6 accord, but the General saw no reason for this in what was supposed to be French territory. When Ho sent his own emissaries to the south, they were arrested by the French who continued to regard Cochin China as a French colony, claiming a free hand there until the referendum could be held. This led to difficult local problems, as in the case of the Vietnamese emissary sent by one Vietnamese zone commander [Nguyen Ngoc Bich] to discuss a cease-fire with the local French commanding officer. The emissary was unceremoniously informed that the French expected complete capitulation—the surrender of arms and prisoners—and that this was an ultimatum. They had until the 31st of March to comply; if they failed to do so, the fighting would begin again. Before the Vietnamese left French headquarters, the French officer took his name and it was soon public knowledge that the French had put a price on his head as well as on that of his commander, Nguyen Ngoc Bich. In this particular region of Cochin China fighting resumed by the end of the month. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---Ellen Hammer (1954), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/struggleforindoc0000hamm_h0h0/page/n5/mode/2up">The struggle for Indochina</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/struggleforindoc0000hamm_h0h0/page/157/mode/2up?q=march+6+free+state">pp. 157–158</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Hammer.1954-10">[10]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> Chester L. Cooper was an American diplomat and a key negotiator in many critical agreements in the 1950s and '60s, beginning with his involvement in the Geneva Conference on Indochina in 1954.<a href="#cite_note-Fox.2005-43">[43]</a> In his 2005 memoir In the Shadows of History: 50 Years Behind the Scenes of Cold War Diplomacy, "he recounted his association with a constellation of historic figures that included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lyndon B. Johnson">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_S._Khrushchev" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nikita S. Khrushchev">Nikita S. Khrushchev</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Fox.2005-43">[43]</a> <a href="#Chester_Cooper">N.clc</a> Dr. Cooper <a href="#Dr._Cooper">N.dcc</a> --- who acquired a deep knowledge of Vietnam history from his years in Asia, from 1941 to 1954, first working for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">Office of Strategic Services</a><a href="#HCM_and_OSS">N.hos</a> in China, then for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:CIA">CIA</a> in 1947, and subsequently became head of the Far East staff of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Council" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:National Intelligence Council">Office of National Estimates</a> in 1950<a href="#cite_note-Colman.2012-44">[44]</a>---devoted some three to four pages to describe Dr. Bich in his Vietnam-history book <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lostcrusadeameri00coop/mode/2up">The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam</a>, in particular some aspects of Bich's resistance activities: <div class="thumb tleft"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/1/16/HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG/150px-HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG" decoding="async" width="150" height="151" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/1/16/HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG/225px-HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/1/16/HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG/300px-HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG 2x" data-file-width="2989" data-file-height="3000" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:HD-SN-99-02042.JPEG" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>A <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Viet_Minh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Viet Minh (page does not exist)">Viet-Minh</a> suspect captured by a French-Foreign-Legion patrol in 1954.</div></div></div> <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ As commander of the Viet Minh forces in the Delta during the late 40s, Bich became one of the most popular local heroes. During 1946 the Viet Minh hierarchy became concerned that Bich might pose a threat to the aims of the Viet Minh in the southern part of Vietnam, and by the end of that year Ho apparently decided that Bich had served his purpose in the Delta. He was "invited" to move North to become a member of the Viet Minh political and military headquarters in Hanoi. Bich was reluctant to leave his command, not only because of his desire to continue the fight against the French, but also because he felt uneasy about leaving his base of power. Nonetheless, he made his way north via the nationalist underground to Hanoi. A day or two before Bich was to report to the Viet Minh headquarters, the French discovered his hiding place near Hanoi. Since he was on the French "most wanted" list, he was subjected to an intensive and unpleasant interrogation. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---Chester L. Cooper (1970), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lostcrusadeameri00coop/page/n5/mode/2up">The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lostcrusadeameri00coop/page/122/mode/2up?q=ngoc+bich">p. 122</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Cooper.1970-2">[2]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom,_October_1954_(030630-N-0000X-001).jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/f/f5/Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom%2C_October_1954_%28030630-N-0000X-001%29.jpg/150px-Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom%2C_October_1954_%28030630-N-0000X-001%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="187" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/f/f5/Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom%2C_October_1954_%28030630-N-0000X-001%29.jpg/225px-Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom%2C_October_1954_%28030630-N-0000X-001%29.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/f/f5/Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom%2C_October_1954_%28030630-N-0000X-001%29.jpg/300px-Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom%2C_October_1954_%28030630-N-0000X-001%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2271" data-file-height="2835" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Vietnamese_refugees_board_LST_516_during_Operation_Passage_to_Freedom,_October_1954_(030630-N-0000X-001).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Vietnamese refugees boarding the US Navy ship LST 516 during Operation Passage to Freedom, October 1954. The cloth banner hung above the ship number 516 reads: "Your Passage to Freedom" with a Vietnamese translation below.</div></div></div> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph A. Buttinger</a> was an ardent advocate for refugees of persecution, and a "renowned authority on Vietnam and the American war" in that country.<a href="#cite_note-Lambert.1992-45">[45]</a> In 1940, he helped founded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Rescue_Committee" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:International Rescue Committee">International Rescue Committee</a>, "a nonprofit organization aiding refugees of political, religious and racial persecution", and while "working with refugees in Vietnam in the 1950s, he became immersed in the history, culture, and politics of that nation".<a href="#cite_note-Lambert.1992-45">[45]</a> His scholarship was in high demand during the Vietnam War. The New York Times described his his two-volume Vietnam-history book, Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled,<a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967a-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967b-1">[1]</a> <a href="#Buttinger-review">N.jbr1</a> as "a monumental work" that "marks a strategic breakthrough in the serious study of Vietnamese politics in America" and as "the most thorough, informative and, over all, the most impressive book on Vietnam yet published in America".<a href="#cite_note-Lambert.1992-45">[45]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph Buttinger</a> wrote in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamdragonemb02butt/page/n5/mode/2up">Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol. 2</a> that Dr. Bich was "the resistance hero" whom "Diem had no success" to convince to join his cabinet: <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ Diem left Paris for Saigon on June 24, accompanied by his brother Luyen, by Tran Chanh Thanh, and by Nguyen Van Thoai, a relative of the Ngo family and the only prominent exile willing to join Diem's Cabinet. With others, such as the resistance hero Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Diem had no success. He tried unsuccessfully to win Nguyen Manh Ha, a Catholic who had been Ho Chi Minh's first Minister of Economics but who had parted with the Vietminh in December, 1946. These men, and others too, rejected Diem's concept of government, which clearly aimed at a one-man rule. Nor did they share Diem's illusions about the chances of preventing a Geneva settlement favorable to the Vietminh. Diem apparently believed that the National Army, no longer fighting under the French but for an independent government, would quickly become effective and reduce the gains made by the Vietminh. ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph Buttinger</a> (1967), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamdragonemb02butt/page/n5/mode/2up">Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol.2</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamdragonemb02butt/page/850/mode/2up?q=ngoc+bich">p. 850</a>.<a href="#Buttinger-review">N.jbr2</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> That Nguyen Ngoc Bich was being hunted by the French colonists was described in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph Buttinger</a>'s book:<a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967a-46">[46]</a>:641 <blockquote> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <th width="100%"> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: justify;">❝ [Note] 9. Miss Hammer cites the case of an emissary sent by Nguyen Ngoc Bich. The French took down his name when he came to their headquarters to negotiate a cease-fire, and "it was soon public knowledge that the French had put a price on his head as well as on that of his commander, Nguyen Ngoc Bich" (ibid., p. 158). ❞ </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding: 0 1.5em; text-align: right;">---<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph Buttinger</a> (1967), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamdragonemb01butt/page/n5/mode/2up">Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol.1</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamdragonemb01butt/page/640/mode/2up?q=ngoc+bich">p. 641</a>.<a href="#NNB-hero-2">N.pbh</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </blockquote> <h3>Napalm bombs</h3> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerycaption">French use of American-made napalm bombs</li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 412.66666666667px"><div style="width: 412.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 410.66666666667px;"><div style="margin:0px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:French_plane_dropped_napalm_bomb_on_Vietminh_force.png" class="image" title="French plane pulling up after a dive to drop Napalm bombs on Vietminh force ambushing a French battalion. The white streak below the plane, clearly visible against the dark background of trees further behind, was the Napalm bomb that was just dropped. 1953 December."><img alt="French plane pulling up after a dive to drop Napalm bombs on Vietminh force ambushing a French battalion. The white streak below the plane, clearly visible against the dark background of trees further behind, was the Napalm bomb that was just dropped. 1953 December." src="/wiki/images/thumb/a/a4/French_plane_dropped_napalm_bomb_on_Vietminh_force.png/616px-French_plane_dropped_napalm_bomb_on_Vietminh_force.png" decoding="async" width="411" height="300" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/French_plane_dropped_napalm_bomb_on_Vietminh_force.png 1.5x" data-file-width="780" data-file-height="570" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> French plane pulling up after a dive to drop Napalm bombs on Vietminh force ambushing a French battalion. The white streak below the plane, clearly visible against the dark background of trees further behind, was the Napalm bomb that was just dropped. 1953 December. </div> </div></li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 452px"><div style="width: 452px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 450px;"><div style="margin:0px auto;"><a href="/wiki/File:French_indochina_napalm_1953-12_1.png" class="image" title="French Napalm bomb exploded over Vietminh force. 1953 December. This image during the (French) First Indochina War, conjuring up the horrific destruction of the Napalm on the human flesh,[47] N.ng2 portended what was to come more than ten years later during the (American) Second Indochina War with even more deadly advanced Napalm technology."><img alt="French Napalm bomb exploded over Vietminh force. 1953 December. This image during the (French) First Indochina War, conjuring up the horrific destruction of the Napalm on the human flesh,[47] N.ng2 portended what was to come more than ten years later during the (American) Second Indochina War with even more deadly advanced Napalm technology." src="/wiki/images/thumb/8/81/French_indochina_napalm_1953-12_1.png/675px-French_indochina_napalm_1953-12_1.png" decoding="async" width="450" height="300" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/French_indochina_napalm_1953-12_1.png 1.5x" data-file-width="720" data-file-height="480" /></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> French Napalm bomb exploded over Vietminh force. 1953 December. This image during the (French) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>, conjuring up the horrific destruction of the Napalm on the human flesh,<a href="#cite_note-Tong.2018-47">[47]</a> <a href="#Napalm_girl">N.ng2</a> portended what was to come more than ten years later during the (American) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Second Indochina War">Second Indochina War</a> with even more deadly advanced Napalm technology. </div> </div></li> </ul> On the French use of American-made napalm bombs, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Nguyen Ngoc Bich">Bich</a> wrote that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> stopped following the advice of Chinese tacticians in launching large-scale mass attacks once many of their soldiers died by French napalm bombs. They switched from the costlier manufacturing of arms to the less expensive manufacturing of hand grenades, which can be used against light battalions to seize their arms.<a href="#cite_note-Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich-3">[3]</a> <h2>Publications</h2> <ul><li><cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFNguyen-Ngoc-Bich1962">Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich (March 1962), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/vietnaman-independent-viewpoint/91FC9BBCE8F39A365B303AC4118BEBC6">Vietnam—An Independent Viewpoint</a>", <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Quarterly" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The China Quarterly">The China Quarterly</a> 9. Retrieved on 18 Feb 2023</cite>, pp. 105–111. See also the contents of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/volume/0FB8E56075A0E2649EB01EC2BFB9ABFB">Volume 9</a>, which included the articles of many experts on Vietnam history and politics such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_B._Fall" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bernard B. Fall">Bernard B. Fall</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoang_Van_Chi" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hoang Van Chi">Hoang Van Chi</a>, Phillipe Devillers (see, e.g., his classic 1952 book Histoire du Viet-Nam in Section <a href="#References">References</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French_Cochinchina&oldid=1203174341#cite_note-43">French French Cochinchina, Ref. 42</a>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Honey" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:P. J. Honey">P. J. Honey</a>, Gérard Tongas (see, e.g, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.abebooks.com/Jai-v%C3%A9cu-lEnfer-Communiste-Nord-Viet-Nam/31061452118/bd">J'ai vécu dans l'Enfer Communiste au Nord Viet-Nam</a>, Debresse, Paris, 1961, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2300EAC28055ADB13CD8B21AF51F3BBE/S0305741000025340a.pdf/lenfer_communiste_au_nord_vietnam_by_gerard_tongas_paris_les_nouvelles_editions_debresse_1961_463_pp_18_new_francs.pdf">reviewed</a>] by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Honey" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:P. J. Honey">P. J. Honey</a>), among others.</li></ul> <h3>Bich's 1962 paper, summary</h3> In 1962, Dr. Bich laid out an argument to avoid the subversion war by North Vietnam to conquer rice from South Vietnam to solve its famine problem due to low yields in agricultural production using archaic methods and due to the failed agrarian reform. His main points were (1) South Vietnam should have a truly liberal democratic government, (2) the South should establish commercial relations with the North to help solve the said famine problem, (3) the South should maintain a non-aligned neutrality that would prevent interference from the North, (4) the South would peacefully negotiate with the North toward a progressive reunification. Below is a more detailed summary of his article, looking back from more than 60 years later. As a result, past tense is used in this summary to describe long-past events, instead of the sometimes present tense used in the original article. The full article translated into French is available in the document Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.<a href="#NNC.VQL.2023">N.bb2</a> <h4>Vietnam, China, and USSR</h4> Contrary to the belief of the Western world (that the Vietnamese generally disliked, and had an inferiority complex against, the Chinese), the Vietnamese tended to be too proud of their history and victories against the Chinese and Mongol invaders over the centuries. Aware of the Chinese historical "fierce expansionism", an important question for North and South Vietnam was how to safeguard the future of Vietnam as a whole country. While South Vietnam tried to forcibly assimilate Chinese immigrants and their descendants, North Vietnam adopted a "more subtle attitude", moving from "fears" during the Chiang Kai-shek era to "solidarity and friendship" after the communist had won in 1949. The Geneva agreements, while satisfying for China, left the North Vietnamese to be content with the prospect of reunifying with South Vietnam upon an election. After the failure of the agrarian reform, there was a concern of the presence of many Chinese soldiers and civilians in North Vietnam. To keep Chinese economic aid flowing, Ho Chi Minh initially maintained a balance between Peking (Beijing) and Moscow, but subsequently tilted toward Moscow after Peking admitted that it could not help carry out a semi-heavy industrialization. In September 1960, Le Duan, then Secretary-General of the Party, put forward a three-point program: (1) Support Moscow in any Sino-Soviet dispute, (2) Five-year plan (1961–1965) to socialize North Vietnam, (3) Progressive and peaceful reunification of the two Vietnams. <h4>Le Duan: Reconquer the South</h4> With the nomination of Le Duan—who led the struggle for independence in South Vietnam for a long time and knew the South more than anyone else—as First Secretary of the Party, North Vietnam began to undertake the reconquest of the South, with the first step being to eliminate the Ngo Dinh Diem regime and the American influence in the South. There were deeper motives. <h4>Communist pragmatism</h4> "The most striking feature of the Vietnamese Communist leadership was its outstanding spirit of realism, even pragmatism." They continuously and critically reexamined facts so that a lesson could be drawn for every action and every happening to avoid past mistakes. By doing so, they tended to imitate or to repeat past actions that were proven successful, and lacked imagination and open-mindedness to create new solutions to tackle new challenges. For example, they stopped following the advice of Chinese tacticians in launching large-scale mass attacks once many of their soldiers died by French napalm bombs. They switched from the costlier manufacturing of arms to the less expensive manufacturing of hand grenades, which can be used against light battalions to seize their arms. They bred dogs, instead of pigs, as a source of meat since dogs produced two litters of young each year, while pigs produced only one. <h4>Rapid industrialization</h4> A deeper motive to swing closer to Moscow was to develop a rapid industrialization to raise the standard of living to avoid complaints about dictatorship and restriction of freedom, and also the "dreaded spectre of becoming a mere satellite state". The targets of the Five-Year Plan were "extremely optimistic". In the old French Indochina, "great leaps forward" in economics were achieved in some sectors, such as a 400% increase in plantation area, 150% increase in the number of workers in industrial establishments, in spite of World War I. Now, there was an abundance of labor due to high unemployment. The planned industrial projects could be completed if foreign aid maintained the same rhythm and agricultural production was adequate. <h4>Agricultural risk of failure</h4> It was doubtful, however, that the target of growing agricultural production by 61% over five years could be achieved due to low yields resulting from the archaic methods of cultivation, the old system of sub-letting land, the difficulty of cultivating new land, the discontent among the peasants, and the disastrous agrarian reforms and its consequence. Hunger had become endemic, and China could not come to the rescue because of her own problems. Rice had to be smuggled from the South to the North. The five-year plan ran a "grave risk of failure" due to lack of food to feed the people in North Vietnam, without an increase in rice supply from South Vietnam, not to mention other unpredictable factors such as floods, droughts, bad weather, etc. The success of the Five-Year Plan would be a primary condition to maintain some independence from Peking, which would exert a greater influence than from Moscow in the case of "necessary and inevitable war", and the North being a satellite of China "would constitute a most serious menace for the South, particularly in time of any major crisis". <h4>Famine, conquest of rice</h4> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:252px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Famine_in_Vietnam,_1945_(3).jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/a/a2/Famine_in_Vietnam%2C_1945_%283%29.jpg/250px-Famine_in_Vietnam%2C_1945_%283%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="345" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/a/a2/Famine_in_Vietnam%2C_1945_%283%29.jpg/375px-Famine_in_Vietnam%2C_1945_%283%29.jpg 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Famine_in_Vietnam%2C_1945_%283%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="689" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Famine_in_Vietnam,_1945_(3).jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>The great Vietnamese famine 1944–1945.</div></div></div> The reconquest of the South entrusted to Le Duan could then be understood as "a struggle unleashed simply for the purpose of conquering rice", without which the five-year plan most certainly would fail. For many Southerners, their reaction against the Diem regime, rather than the love for Communism, enabled this subversion war to continue. The enormous economic benefit that North Vietnam would harvest from the national reunification was the primary reason for the war. North Vietnam was fighting to secure rice, and thus the war was, from the purely national point of view, a legitimate one. Ngo Dinh Diem on the other hand refused to provide aid to alleviate the famine in the North. <h4>North-South relation</h4> The Vietnamese people had for a long time a desire to have a liberal, truly democratic government. and had proven that in the end they would rise time and again to thwart the yoke imposed on them by any foreign power. To avoid such internal war for rice from becoming a proxy war for Moscow, there should be a liberal regime in Saigon that allowed for establishing commercial relations with Hanoi and for a call to stop the fighting. Moreover, a non-aligned political neutrality would prevent interference by North Vietnam in the affairs of South Vietnam. <h4>Reunification negotiation</h4> A peaceful and progressive reunification of the two Vietnams could only be achieved through negotiation at a table, and not by arm struggle in the jungle. The South would hope to live side by side peacefully with the North to collaborate in building the common Vietnamese nation, as the alternative would make "reunification" a propaganda that concealed the desire to conquer. <h2>Notes</h2> <div style="font-size:80%; background-color:lightyellow; border:1px outset black; padding:10px;"> (↑ <a href="#Note_links_jump">NOTE</a>) How to create the Note jump-to and jump-back links: The Note link-labels, such as <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication">N.bda</a> in superscript, are unique identifiers for the corresponding Notes, with "N" standing for "Note", followed by a period and three or four characters summarizing the Note contents, e.g., "bda" for "Bao Dai abdication," which is the title (in italics) of the Note (jump-to) link <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication">N.bda</a>. In front of each Note, the uparrow ↑ preceeding a Note (jump-back) link such as (↑ <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication_jump">N.bda</a>) indicates the link to jump back UP to the main text where the jump-to link <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication">N.bda</a> appears. The target of the jump-back link (↑ <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication_jump">N.bda</a>) is the HTML <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_element#Anchor" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:HTML element">anchor</a> with the code <code></code> having the anchor name being "Bao Dai abdication jump", without an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_text" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Anchor text">Anchor_text</a> (or link text, or link label) inside. The code <code>[[#Bao Dai abdication jump|N.bda]]</code> creates the jump-back link (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Help:Link">Help:Link</a>) with label "<a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication_jump">N.bda</a>" to jump back UP to the main text where the anchor with anchor name "Bao Dai abdication jump" was embedded. </div> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Alliance_transposition_jump">N.atr</a>) Alliance transposition: A surprising alliance transposition happened, with rightist resistance fighters turned to the Japanese (just like the French turned to the British), whereas the leftist resistance fighters turned to China and America (just like the French turned to the USSR) ["On pent ainsi, et bien que de tels rapprochements soient très arbitraires, exprimer en termes européens la situation indochinoise : contre l'impérialisme présent (qui est ici la France), les « résistants » de droite (Caodaistes, Hoa Hao, Phuc Quoc, etc.) regardent vers le Japon (comme les nôtres vers les Anglo-Saxons), tandis que les « résistants » de gauche se tournent vers la Chine et l'Amérique, comme les nôtres le faisaient vers l'U.R.S.S. La transposition étonne, mais elle est, à notre avis, exacte."]<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:99</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#American_War_casualties_jump">N.awc</a>) American War casualties: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Second Indochina War">Second Indochina War</a> or the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, known as the "American War" in Vietnamese literature, led to a "staggering number of deaths, especially among Vietnamese (between three and four million Vietnamese lost their lives), and the utter destruction of much of the country of Vietnam and large portions of Laos and Cambodia."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2001-48">[48]</a>:85 "In 1995 Vietnam released its official estimate of the number of people killed during the Vietnam War: as many as 2,000,000 civilians on both sides and some 1,100,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong fighters. The U.S. military has estimated that between 200,000 and 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers died. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., lists more than 58,300 names of members of the U.S. armed forces who were killed or went missing in action. Among other countries that fought for South Vietnam, South Korea had more than 4,000 dead, Thailand about 350, Australia more than 500, and New Zealand some three dozen."<a href="#cite_note-Britannica.VWC-49">[49]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Point_4_Atlantic_Charter_jump">N.p4a</a>) Atlantic Charter, Point 4: "Fourth; they will endeavor, with due respect to their existing obligations, to further the enjoyment by all states, great or small, victor or vanquished, of access on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity;"<a href="#Complete_Atlantic_Charter">N.cac2</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication_jump">N.bda</a>, <a href="#Bao_Dai_abdication_jump2">N.bda2</a>) Bao Dai abdication: Under the pressure of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a>,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:186-187 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a> had decided to abdicate on 1945 Aug 24,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:186-187 composed the Imperial Rescript of abdication dated and signed on 1945 Aug 25,<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:140 and abdicated officially on 1945 Aug 30.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:220 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> then appointed "Mr. Nguyen Vinh Thuy" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_Dai" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bao Dai">Bao Dai</a>'s birth name) as "Supreme Counsellor"<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:220 of the Provisional Government of Vietnam.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:220 On 1945 Oct 22, Ho Chi Minh sent a letter to the US Secretary of State James F. Byrnes,<a href="#cite_note-Ho_to_Byrnes.1945-36">[36]</a>:2 and attached the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/c:File:1945_Aug_22_Bao_Dai_abdication_p1.jpg" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:c:File:1945 Aug 22 Bao Dai abdication p1.jpg">Imperial Rescript of Bao Dai's abdication</a> together with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/c:File:1945_Aug_22_Bao_Dai_abdication_p2.jpg" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:c:File:1945 Aug 22 Bao Dai abdication p2.jpg">Bao Dai's message to his royal clan about his abdication</a>, both of which were an English translation with no date, but with the recorded date as 1945 Aug 22 in the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The date of 1945 Aug 25 for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/c:File:1945_Aug_22_Bao_Dai_abdication_p1.jpg" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:c:File:1945 Aug 22 Bao Dai abdication p1.jpg">Imperial Rescript of Bao Dai's abdication</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/c:File:1945_Aug_22_Bao_Dai_abdication_p2.jpg" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:c:File:1945 Aug 22 Bao Dai abdication p2.jpg">Bao Dai's message to his royal clan about his abdication</a>, as recorded by historian Devillers (1952)<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:140 is likely more reliable and correct.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Bao_Dai_quote_jump">N.bdq</a>) Bao Dai quote: In the foreword by Devillers for Tønnesson's 2010 book Vietnam 1946.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:xiii-xiv</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Before_FDR_died_jump">N.brd</a>) Before FDR died: Churchill had been resisting to bother FDR regarding Indochina, but relented under the urge of the British Foreign Office, and dispatched on 1945 Apr 11, the day before FDR died, a "strongly worded telegram," stating "It would look very bad in history if we failed to support isolated French forces in their resistance to the Japanese to the best of our ability, or, if we excluded the French from participation in our councils as regards Indo-China."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:67-68</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#NNBich-betrayed_jump">N.bs</a>) Betrayal suspicion: On the betrayal suspicion, Chester Cooper wrote in 1970:<a href="#cite_note-Cooper.1970-2">[2]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lostcrusadeameri00coop/page/122/mode/2up?q=%22Whether+the+Viet+Minh+had+actually+betrayed+him%22&view=theater">123</a> "Whether the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> had actually betrayed him to French agents is not known for certain, but <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> always suspected that this was how he had been discovered," whereas the assertion that <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a> "was betrayed by his Communist colleagues to the French" was written in the short biography that accompanied <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a>'s 1962 article, in <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFHoney,_P.J.1962">Honey, P.J., ed. (March 1962), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/volume/0FB8E56075A0E2649EB01EC2BFB9ABFB">Special Issue on Vietnam</a>", <a href="/wiki/The_China_Quarterly" title="The China Quarterly">The China Quarterly</a> 9. Retrieved on 18 Feb 2023</cite>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/volume/0FB8E56075A0E2649EB01EC2BFB9ABFB">Volume 9</a>. See the <a href="#China_Quarterly">Note on The China Quarterly</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#NNC.VQL.2023_jump">N.bb</a>) Bich biography: See primary sources and extensive quotations from secondary sources (history books and articles) in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#NNB-hero-2_jump">N.pbh</a>) Bich's head price: See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph Buttinger</a>'s book, Vol. 1<a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967a-46">[46]</a> <a href="#Buttinger-review">N.jbr3</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#bich-injury_jump1">N.bi1</a>, <a href="#bich-injury_jump2">N.bi2</a>) Bich's injury: A photo showing the injury mark on the forefront of Dr. Bich as a result of this "intensive and unpleasant interrogation" can be found in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Bich_joined_Viet_Minh_jump">N.bjvm</a>) Bich joined Viet Minh: See the quotation from a French doctoral thesis in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#NNB_street_jump">N.nnbs</a>) Bich street: A street in Can Tho is named Nguyen Ngoc Bich to commemorate him blowing up the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/C%E1%BA%A7u+C%C3%A1i+R%C4%83ng,+Ninh+Ki%E1%BB%81u,+C%E1%BA%A7n+Th%C6%A1,+Vietnam/@10.0075615,105.7499666,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m6!3m5!1s0x31a089ba70b1c3b5:0xbddcccf9f6fadd75!8m2!3d10.0075615!4d105.7499666!16s%2Fg%2F1jkxqlp4t">Cai-Rang Bridge</a> in this city to stop the French troops advance in 1945–46.<a href="#cite_note-CTDN.2019-42">[42]</a> The short biography in Vietnamese, together with an English translation, in this street-naming plan is provided in the document Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography,<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Bich_Viet_Minh_jump">N.bvm</a>) Bich Viet Minh: The Viet Minh is "nationalist front organization with many non-communist members, but under communist domination, most clearly at the level of the top leadership."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:23 That Bich joined the Viet Minh in 1945 was mentioned in a French PhD dissertation with page image provided in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911-1966): A Biography.<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#British-French_arrived_jump">N.bvm</a>) British-French arrived: "Depuis le 12 septembre [1945] en effet,par petits paquets, les troupes alliées arrivent par avion : une compagnie française du 5ème RIC, un bataillon gurkha de la 20ème division indienne du général Douglas D. Gracey, que Mountbatten a désignée pour opérer le désarmement des Japonais en Indochine du Sud."<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:156</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Buttinger-review_jump1">N.jbr1</a>, <a href="#Buttinger-review_jump2">N.jbr2</a>, <a href="#Buttinger-review_jump3">N.jbr3</a>) Buttinger review: Osborne (1967), a Vietnam scholar, provided a critical review<a href="#cite_note-Osborne.1967-11">[11]</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph Buttinger</a>'s two-volume book.<a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967a-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967b-1">[1]</a> A recent <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7760244">summary</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Buttinger" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Joseph Buttinger">Joseph Buttinger</a>'s book was provided by Stefania Dzhanamova on 2021 Aug 11 on Goodreads.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Cao_Dai_jump">N.cd</a>) Cao Dai: "Appealing largely to the uneducated and essentially superstitious masses, the Cao Dai mushroomed in size to over five hundred thousand by 1930, giving the French authorities cause for concern. A schism took place in 1933 when Pham Cong Tac, one of the original founders, organized a secret sect known as Pham Mon to exploit political objectives. With the death of Pope Le Van Trung in 1936, Tac seized control of the temple at Tay Ninh and proclaimed himself 'interim Pope.' From this point on the Cao Dai split into several distinct sects but retained in all of them a rigid rightist political philosophy, conservative in nature and vehemently anticommunist and promonarchical."<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/500/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22rigid+rightist+political+philosophy%22">501</a> <a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:97</li></ul> <dl><dd>At first, the French colonialists tolerated the Cao Dai, prefering religious sects over Communists, allowing it to be practiced in Cochinchina (south Vietnam), but not in Annam (central Vietnam) and Tonkin (north Vietnam).<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:98 "In 1940-41, the French altitude changed in Cochinchina loo, since it was realized that the new religion had turned into a pro-Japanese force.<a href="#cite_note-Buttinger.1967a-46">[46]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamdragonemb01butt/page/252/mode/2up?q=%22Cao+Dai%22&view=theater">252</a> Citing messages from above, Caodaist priests predicted the certain victory of the Axis."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:98</dd> <dd>In the Spring of 1941, the Caodaistes found themselves in serious difficulty with the French administration, and sought help and protection from the Japanese, who were not in a position to provide. As a result, the Caodaistes were crushed by the French, with Cao Dai leaders sent into exile. By December of 1941, the "famed" Kempeitai, the Japanese political police modeled after the Gestapo, came to Indochina, and provided help and protection to the Caodaistes and other nationalist factions.<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:89-90 (In Devillers (1952)<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:90, "Kempeitai" was translated into French as "Gendarmerie" and "police politique", whereas in Patti (1980)<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:41, "kempeitai" was translated as "security police".)</dd> <dd>After the Japanese coup de force on 1945 Mar 9, being pro-Japanese,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/76/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22rising+sun+armband%22">76</a> <a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:103,373 the Cao Dai sect along with other pro-Japanese groups<a href="#Alliance_transposition">N.atr</a> in the United National Front (Mặt Trận Quốc Gia Thống Nhứt),<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/524/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22United+National+Front%22">524</a> established on 1945 Aug 14,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/554/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22United+National+Front%22">554</a> were convinced by Tran Van Giau, a Viet Minh leader in Cochinchina---and later "a prominent Vietnamese historian who organized the 1945 revolution in Saigon and the whole of Cochinchina (Nam Ky)"<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:21---that they all would be "outlawed"<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/186/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22outlawed%22">186</a> by the invading Allied, agreed to an alliance under the leadership of the Viet Minh.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1985-50">[50]</a> <a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/524/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22United+National+Front%22">524</a></dd> <dd>After the Japanese officially surrendered on 1945 Sep 2, the same day that Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam Independence, General Leclerc (on 1945 Oct 5)<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/454/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22Leclerc%22">454</a> and the French 5th Régiment d'Infanterie Colonial (RIC,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/n15/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22RIC%22">xv</a> Colonial Infantry Regiment, on 1945 Oct 3)<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/454/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22Leclerc%22">454</a> were brought back to Cochinchina with the help of the British. The advance units of British troops, the 20th Indian Division, and of the French 5th RIC were flown into Saigon on 1945 Sep 12.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/454/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22Gracey%22">455</a></dd> <dd>"The contentious character of the nationalist movement in the south facilitated Leclerc's 'paciﬁcation campaign' at the end of 1945 and the beginning of 1946. He took on the armies of the Hoa Hao, the Cao Dai, and the Viet Minh one after the other. At ﬁrst, he seemed to score a resounding military success. Many Caodaists rallied to the French. By March, Leclerc estimated that his troops controlled, not just the cities, but also 80 percent of the villages. Politically, however, France had confronted and alienated much of the population, and when the Viet Minh reorganized its forces and started to cooperate more systematically with the religious sects, guerrilla activity resurfaced in most of the areas the French thought they had paciﬁed."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:74</dd> <dd>On 1946 Apr 10, Nguyen Binh, the equivalent of Vo Nguyen Giap in the south,<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:75 formed the Unified National Front (Mặt Trận Quốc Gia Liên Hiệp, "Front National Unifié"),<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:253 composed of the Cao Dai and the same former pro-Japanese groups that were in the United National Front, established less than one year before on 1945 Aug 14, as mentioned above.</dd> <dd>The side switching of these groups prompted Ho Chi Minh to describe the pro-Japanese politicians as "weathercocks who were pro-French yesterday, pro-Jap today, and pro someone else tomorrow."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:105</dd></dl> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Chester_Cooper_jump">N.clc</a>) Chester Cooper: A summary of an obituary<a href="#cite_note-Fox.2005-43">[43]</a> for Chester L. Cooper is in the document Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Dr._Cooper_jump">N.dcc</a>) Cooper, PhD: Chester L. Cooper undertook his doctoral study in urban land economics, and after an interruption due to WWII, received his PhD in 1960.<a href="#cite_note-Colman.2012-44">[44]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#China_Quarterly_jump">N.tcq</a>) China Quarterly: The <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/editorial/5958FFC9348ED8A5B69E462E3B72B806">Editorial</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Quarterly" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:The China Quarterly">The China Quarterly</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/volume/0FB8E56075A0E2649EB01EC2BFB9ABFB">Volume 9</a>, reads: "Five of our articles are by specialists who have observed the Hanoi regime from a distance. M. Tongas and Mr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoang_Van_Chi" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hoang Van Chi">Hoang Van Chi</a> are writing on the basis of personal experience. Dr. Bich presents an independent view of the whole Vietnamese situation." This China Quarterly issue contained the articles written by several well-known intellectuals on Vietnam history and politics such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_B._Fall" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Bernard B. Fall">Bernard B. Fall</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoang_Van_Chi" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Hoang Van Chi">Hoang Van Chi</a>, Phillipe Devillers (See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/21651">Philippe Devillers (1920–2016), un secret nommé Viêt-Nam, Mémoires d'Indochine</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220629093316/https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/21651">Internet archived 2022.06.29</a>), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Honey" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:P. J. Honey">P. J. Honey</a>, William Kaye (see e.g., <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/651693">A Bowl of Rice Divided: The Economy of North Vietnam, 1962</a>), Gerard Tongas, among others. See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/editorial/5958FFC9348ED8A5B69E462E3B72B806">Editorial</a> and the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/contributors/DFA1B1B34B49325008EAB9EB582BF0DE">brief introduction of the contributors</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Churchill,_Atlantic_Charter_jump">N.chac</a>) Churchill, Atlantic Charter: "Both Churchill and many members of his Cabinet were alarmed by the third point of the Charter, which mentions the rights of all peoples to choose their own government. Churchill was concerned that this clause acknowledged the right of colonial subjects to agitate for decolonization, including those in Great Britain’s empire." Churchill wanted to "bind the United States closer to Great Britain," warned his cabinet on 1941 Aug 11 "that it would be “imprudent” to raise unnecessary difficulties. The Cabinet followed Churchill’s recommendation and approved the Charter."<a href="#cite_note-FRUS-Atlantic.1941-35">[35]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Cold_February_1945_jump">N.cf45</a>) Cold February 1945: It has never been that cold. The temperature went down to four degrees Celcius at noon in Hanoi on 1945 Feb 13, Tết, new year day, Lunar year Ất-Dậu ("13-2-1945, Tết Nguyên Đán Ất-Dậu. Chưa bao giờ rét như thế này. Tại Hà Nội, buổi trưa, hàn thử biểu xuống tới 4 độ"<a href="#cite_note-Doan-Them.1965-51">[51]</a>:3).</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Complete_Atlantic_Charter_jump">N.cac</a>, <a href="#Complete_Atlantic_Charter_jump2">N.cac2</a>) Complete Atlantic Charter: See the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fdrlibrary.org/atlantic-charter">complete Atlantic Charter</a> from the <a href="/wiki/FDR" class="mw-redirect" title="FDR">FDR</a> Presidential Library and Museum.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#d'Argenlieu_recall_jump">N.dar</a>) D'Argenlieu recalled: D'Argenlieu was recalled back to France because of the intense dislike that he caused among the Vietnamese and among the Socialists and Communists in France,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/394/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22abomination+of+Viet+Nam%22">394</a> who gave him the nickname "The Bloody Monk,"<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/162/mode/2up?q=%22bloody+monk%22&view=theater">163</a> who was "widely believed to have sparked the war with his aggressive actions in 1946, in clear violation of the March 6 Accords [1946] and without informing Paris, [by recognizing] the autonomous 'Republic of Cochin China' in the name of France."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/136/mode/2up?q=%22of+the+March+6+Accords%22%22&view=theater">137</a>,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/180/mode/2up?q=%22of+the+March+6+Accords%22%22&view=theater">180</a>,<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/188/mode/2up?q=%22sparked+the+war+with+his+aggressive%22&view=theater">189</a> Such recognition went against the stipulation of a referendum for the unification of the three regions ("Kỳ", i.e., Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin) in the March 6 Accords.<a href="#March_6_Accords">N.m6a2</a> D'Argenlieu was also known as the "abomination of Vietnam,"<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/page/394/mode/2up?view=theater&q=%22abomination+of+Viet+Nam%22">394</a> whom Bao Dai was averse to have any dealings with.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#de_Gaulle_jump1">N.cdg1</a>, <a href="#de_Gaulle_jump2">N.cdg2</a>) De Gaulle: The permanent undersecretary at the British Foreign Office knew only that de Gaulle had a 'head like a pineapple and hips like a woman's', whereas the counselor at the US embassy in Paris and most of de Gaulle compatriots never heard of him.<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:24 By Aug 1946, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de_Gaulle" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de Gaulle">de Gaulle</a> had resigned from the presidency of the French Provisional Government on 1946 Jan 20.<a href="#cite_note-de_Gaulle_web-52">[52]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#de_Gaulle_dream_jump">N.dgd</a>) De Gaulle's dream: In 1940-41, in exchange for retaining control over Indochina and Thailand, both the French and the Thai agreed to let the Japanese Navy, Air Force, and Army use, for their military conquest, the harbors, air fields, and terrain in Indochina and Thailand.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:81 Meanwhile, in exile in London, De Gaulle later wrote in his war memoirs: "À moi-même, menant une bien petite barque sur l'océan de la guerre, L'Indochine apparaissait alors comme un grand navire désemparé que je ne pourrais secourir avant d'avoir longuement réuni les moyens du sauvetage. Le voyant s'éloigner dans la brume, je me jurais à moi-même de le ramener un jour." Ch. de Gaulle, Mémoires de guerre, Tome I, L'appel. 1940-42. p. 137.<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:81(n3)</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Devillers_ref_jump">N.pd</a>) (Philippe) Devillers: See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French_Cochinchina&oldid=1247806900#cite_note-43">French Cochinchina, version 03:16, 26 September 2024, Ref.42</a>: Philippe Devillers, Histoire du Viêt-Nam de 1940 à 1952, Seuil, 1952, and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/21651">Philippe Devillers (1920–2016), un secret nommé Viêt-Nam, Mémoires d'Indochine</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220629093316/https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/21651">Internet archived 2022.06.29</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Devillers_incorrect_info_jump">N.dii</a>) Devillers incorrect info: Devillers (1952) received incorrect information that Ho was in "Tsin Tsi" (Jingxi, Guangxi, China) as he wrote:<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:97 "En mai 1941, il réussit à convoquer à Tsin Tsi dans le Kwang Si, à 100 km environ au Nord de Cao Bang, un 'Congrès' (In May 1941, he succeeded in calling for a plenum at Jingxi in the Guangxi province, about 100 km north of the Cao Bang province)."</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#FDR_died_jump">N.frd</a>) FDR died: "Then, on April 12, as Roosevelt was once again on vacation---at his compound in Warm Springs, Georgia---he complained of a headache, slumped back in his chair, and died."<a href="#cite_note-OBrien.2024-37">[37]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Fenn_helped_Ho_jump">N.fhh</a>) Fenn helped Ho: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Office of Strategic Services">OSS</a> Lt. Charles Fenn helped "make Ho Chi Minh the undisputed leader of the Viet Minh in 1945".<a href="#cite_note-Bartholomew-Feis.2006-29">[29]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/osshochiminhunex0000bart/page/96/mode/2up?q=%22make+Ho+Chi+Minh+the%22&view=theater">96</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Francophile_anticolonialists_jump1">N.fa1</a>, <a href="#Francophile_anticolonialists_jump2">N.fa2</a>) Francophile anticolonialists: "French teachings and models over Confucian ones. Some of these teachings were, to say the least, unhelpful to the colonial enterprise. Voltaire's condemnation of tyranny, Rousseau's embrace of popular sovereignty, and Victor Hugo's advocacy of liberty and defense of workers' uprisings turned some Vietnamese into that curious creature found also elsewhere in the empire: the Francophile anticolonialist."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:9</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#French_War_casualties_jump">N.fwc</a>) French War casualties: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Indochina_War" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:First Indochina War">First Indochina War</a>, known as the "French-American War" in Vietnamese literature, resulted in "500,000 on the side of the DRV (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Vietnam" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Democratic Republic of Vietnam">Democratic Republic of Vietnam</a>) and 100,000 for the French."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">[24]</a>:261(n3) See also detailed statistics and sources at <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/indochina-1st-indochina-war/">First Indochina War: Mass Atrocity Endings</a>, Posted on August 7, 2015 by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/author/worldpeacefoundation/">World Peace Foundation</a>; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240606132735/https://sites.tufts.edu/atrocityendings/2015/08/07/indochina-1st-indochina-war/">Internet Archive 2024.06.06</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#French-war_cost_jump">N.fwc</a>) French-war cost: PBS US Involvement in Vietnam Video time 0:11 to 0:32:<a href="#cite_note-PBS_US_involvement_in_Vietnam-53">[53]</a> "In 1952, General Dwight Eisenhower was elected President, in part because he promised to take a tougher stance on communism. That year, American taxpayers were footing more than 30% of the bill for the French war in Vietnam (also called the "French-American" war<a href="#cite_note-Lady.Borton.2020-13">[13]</a>). Within two years, that number would rise to nearly 80%." To be more precise, the "U.S. aid to the French military effort mounted from $130 million in 1950 to $800 million in 1953."<a href="#cite_note-Deconde.2002-54">[54]</a>:597 The "United States became France's largest patron, ultimately funding 78 percent of the French war effort in Indochina,"reported historian L.H.T. Nguyen based on the Vietnamese document "Tong ket cuoc khang chien chong thuc dan Phap," Hanoi: Chinh Tri Quoc Gia, 1996.<a href="#cite_note-Lawrence.2007-55">[55]</a>:46</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Hammer_(1954)_jump">N.ehb</a>) Hammer (1954): <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Hammer" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ellen Hammer">Ellen Hammer</a>'s 1954 book The Struggle for Indochina<a href="#cite_note-Hammer.1954-10">[10]</a> was "A superb study of the French effort to hold on to Indochina."<a href="#cite_note-Gettleman.1967-56">[56]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#US_Ambassador_Hurley_jump">N.uah</a>) Hurley, US Ambassador: Patrick Hurley was identified as "Major Gen. Patrick J. Hurley,"<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:13 a “personal representative” in China for Roosevelt,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:15 and then “Ambassador Hurley” by 1945 Mar 9.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:63 Until around 1944 Nov 1-17, the US Ambassador to China was Clarence E. Gauss,<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:15who resigned, and Gen. Hurley was appointed as US Ambassador.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:453 Thus, Patrick Hurley was correctly referred to as Roosevelt’s "ambassador to China" when Truman was president, after Roosevelt had died:<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:66 "On [1945] March 8, the day before the Japanese struck against the French, Roosevelt gave separate audiences in the White House to his ambassador to China, Patrick Hurley; the commander of the China theatre forces, General Albert C. Wedemeyer; and Admiral William F. Halsey, who had raided the Indochina coast on January 12."</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ellen_Hammer_jump">N.ejh</a>) (Ellen J.) Hammer received her PhD from Columbia University, where she specialized in international relations, with a dissertation on public law and government.<a href="#cite_note-Pace.2001-9">[9]</a> A summary of an obituary for Ellen J. Hammer is in the document Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#HCM_quote1_jump">N.hcm1</a>) HCM quote1: From 1945 Aug 26 to 1980, when Patti published his book.<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:4</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#HCM_and_OSS_jump">N.hos</a>) HCM and OSS: For the relationship between the OSS and Ho Chi Minh during WWII, see the article <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_Deer_Team" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:OSS Deer Team">OSS Deer Team</a> and the book The OSS and Ho Chi Minh.<a href="#cite_note-Bartholomew-Feis.2006-29">[29]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_admires_Americans_jump">N.haa</a>) Ho admires Americans: As cited in Logevall (2012),<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/720/mode/2up?q=%22lifelong+admiration%22&view=theater">721</a> Note 22, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge/page/720/mode/2up?q=%22lifelong+admiration%22&view=theater">721</a>: "Former New York Times Saigon correspondent A. J. Langguth, in his fine history of the American war, refers to Ho Chi Minh's 'lifelong admiration for Americans.' "<a href="#cite_note-Langguth.2000-6">[6]</a>:55</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_Atlantic_Charter_jump">N.hac</a>) Ho and Atlantic Charter: In his letter to the US Chairman of Foreign Affairs Association, Ho referred to the Atlantic Charter several times, twice on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/c:File:1945_Oct_22_Ho_Chi_Minh_letter_to_US_Chairman_Foreign_Affairs_Association_p1.jpg" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:c:File:1945 Oct 22 Ho Chi Minh letter to US Chairman Foreign Affairs Association p1.jpg">Page 1</a> alone: (1) " As a signatory power of the Atlantic and San-Francisco Charters, the United States of America have to be well informed on the real state of affairs", (2) "These principles of international justice and equality of status have been clearly expressed and solemnly proclaimed in point 3 and 4<a href="#Point_4_Atlantic_Charter">N.p4a</a> of the Atlantic Charter and subsequently reiterated in the San Francisco Charter".<a href="#cite_note-Ho_to_Chairman_Foreign_Affairs.1945-57">[57]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_communist_nationalist_jump">N.hcn</a>) Ho, communist or nationalist? "For many decades there would be a heated debate among diplomats, politicians and political scientists in every corner of the world as to whether <a href="/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" title="Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> was a communist or a nationalist. The answer is that he was both."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:120 This view is consistent with that of Jean Sainteny who wrote in his 1972 memoir: "I have been asked countless times, `Was Ho Chi Minh primarily a Nationalist or a Communist?' My reply is always the same: Ho Chi Minh was both. For him nationalism and communism were, respectively, goal and the means to attain that goal. The two complemented each other, merged."<a href="#cite_note-Sainteny.1972-58">[58]</a>:20</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_gave_pistols_jump">N.hgp</a>) Ho gave pistols: That Ho gave the new pistols to his rivals, but not to his own people, testified to his political acumen in rallying his rivals to accept him as the top leader.<a href="#cite_note-VQL.2023a-59">[59]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_Tienpao_prison_jump">N.htp</a>) Ho in Tienpao prison: Tienpao in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-Giles" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Wade-Giles">Wade-Giles</a> transliteration is Tianbao in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pinyin" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:pinyin">pinyin</a>. See the analysis in Notes on Vietnam History.<a href="#cite_note-VQL.2023a-59">[59]</a></li></ul> <div class="thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:152px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg" class="image"><img alt="" src="/wiki/images/thumb/0/00/Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg/150px-Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="192" class="thumbimage" srcset="/wiki/images/thumb/0/00/Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg/225px-Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg 1.5x, /wiki/images/thumb/0/00/Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg/300px-Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="509" data-file-height="650" /></a> <div class="thumbcaption"><div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Ho_Chi_Minh_with_a_horse.jpg" class="internal" title="Enlarge"></a></div>Ho Chi Minh took refuge in the jungle to battle French forces.<a href="#cite_note-Sainteny.1972-58">[58]</a>.</div></div></div> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_in_Vietnam_1944_jump">N.hvn</a>) Ho in Vietnam 1944: A French report at that time stated: "more than 200 political refugees had passed from China to Tonkin, most of them armed with pistols and daggers (poiguards), and that among them was a certain 'Nguyen Hai Quoc', who had crossed the border under the name of 'Ho Chi Minh'. Nguyen Hai Quoc, a man 'around sixty years old', was 'the probable leader' of the Viet Minh: 'Under Nguyen Hai Quoc's leadership, the new elements coming from Kwangsi have undertaken to reawaken the movement and bring back to their former activities the implacables who had taken refuge in the mountains.' "<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:118, 208</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_insight_revolution_jump"> N.hir</a>) Ho's insight for revolution: Ho was convinced that with the Japanese occupation of Indochina and "with international events moving fast and Decoux's government isolated from metropolitan France, the potential for revolution in Vietnam was much enhanced."<a href="#cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">[14]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Ho_met_OSS_jump">N.hmo</a>) Ho met OSS: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho</a>'s "mission was probably to obtain information on the development of the war, try to gain Allied recognition for his league and perhaps also secure the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Viet Minh">Viet Minh</a> a role in a forthcoming invasion". At the same time, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Ho%C3%A0ng_Qu%E1%BB%91c_Vi%E1%BB%87t" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Hoàng Quốc Việt">Hoang Quoc Viet</a> carried out a similar mission in Kwangsi (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangxi" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Guangxi">Guangxi</a>) with the Chinese <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/de:Zhang_Fakui" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:de:Zhang Fakui">Gen. Chang Fa-kwei</a>, who told him that "I hope we shall soon meet again in Hanoi".<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:210 See also the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F8F9FACD595E4A74BCA28655493A1743">PBS interview with Hoang Quoc Viet in 1981</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#HCM_Vietnam_Independence_jump">N.hvi</a>) HCM Vietnam Independence : For a detailed comparative analysis between the US Declaration of Independence and Ho Chi Minh’s Declaration of Vietnam Independence, see Notes of Vietnam History.<a href="#cite_note-VQL.2023a-59">[59]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Lancaster_book_jump">N.dlb</a>) Lancaster book: Donald Lancaster's 1961 book The Emancipation of French Indochina<a href="#cite_note-Lancaster.1961-12">[12]</a> was "The best single book on the history of all Indochina to about 1955".<a href="#cite_note-Gettleman.1967-56">[56]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Leclerc_accepted_assignment_jump">N.laa</a>) Leclerc accepted assignment: Devillers (1952) wrote that Leclerc accepted his assignment on 1945 May 22 to command two French divisions placed under the general command of American forces in the Pacific ("Dès lors, c’est à obtenir la participation française à cet assaut que Paris voue ses efforts. Le 26 mai, le Gouvernement français offre à Washington de mettre à la disposition du Commandement américain dans le Pacifique un Corps d'Armée à deux divisions. Le general Leclerc, chef de la prestigieuse 2ème Division Blindée, le vainqueur de Koufra, de Paris, de Strasbourg et de Berchtesgaden, le plus connu et le plus populaire des chefs militaires français, a accepté le 22 mai d’en prendre le commandement.").</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#March_6_Accords_jump1">N.m6a1</a>, <a href="#March_6_Accords_jump2">N.m6a2</a>, <a href="#March_6_Accords_jump3">N.m6a3</a>) March 6 Accords: "Ho Chi Minh saw no option but to negotiate. In the spring of 1946 he offered concessions to the French, agreeing to permit them to return to the north to displace the Chinese. He also agreed to affiliate an autonomous Vietnam with the French Union, a loose federation of states linked to France. In return, French negotiator Jean Sainteny pledged that there would be a national referendum to determine whether Cochinchina, the southern part of Vietnam, would rejoin Annam and Tonkin in a reunited Vietnamese state or remain a separate French territory."<a href="#cite_note-Lawrence.Logevall.2007-60">[60]</a>:7</li></ul> <dl><dd>Point 1 of the March 6 Accords stipulated that the French government recorgnized the Republic of Vietnam as a "Free state" within the French Union, and regarding Cochinchina, a referendum would be organized to unify the three regions of Vietnam, and the French government would ratify the decisions of the voting population ("Le Gouvernement français reconnait la République du Viêt-Nam comme un État libre ayant son governement, son parlement, son armée et ses finances, faisant partie de la Fédération Indochinoise et de l'Union Française. En ce qui concerne la réunion des trois 'Ky', le gouvernement Français s'engage à entériner les décisions prises par la population consultée par référendum").<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:225</dd></dl> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Minh_Tan_jump">N.mbl</a>) Minh Tan book list: A list of important books published by Minh Tan can be found in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nguyen-ngoc-bich-1911-1966-a-biography">Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Moffat_memo_on_Krull_jump">N.mtl</a>) Moffat memo on Krull: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_Low_Moffat" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Abbot Low Moffat">Abbot Low Moffat</a>, "who headed the Division for Southeast Asian [SEA] Affairs at [the] State" [Department],<a href="#cite_note-Patti.1980-20">[20]</a>:381 wrote a memo on 1947 Feb 24 about Germaine Krull's 1945 report<a href="#cite_note-Krull.1945-40">[40]</a> as follows: "The underlying diary by a former French war correspondent (Germaine Krull) describes the Allied occupation of Saigon, September 12 to 24, 1945. The report is by far the most graphic, vivid, and absorbing account of this critical period, which witnessed the beginning of the war in Indochina, which has reached SEA. Highlights have been marked in blue pencil, but the report is well worth reading in its entirety."<a href="#cite_note-Krull.1945-40">[40]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Mountbatten_to_Leclerc_jump">N.mtl</a>) Mountbatten to Leclerc: "Si Roosevelt vivait encore, vous ne rentreriez pas en Indochine."<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:153</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Napalm_battles_jump">N.nb</a>) Napalm battles: See, e.g., the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_V%C4%A9nh_Y%C3%AAn">battle of Vinh Yen</a> (1951), the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_N%C3%A0_S%E1%BA%A3n">battle of Na San</a> (1952), the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dien_Bien_Phu">battle of Dien Bien Phu</a> (1954), etc.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Napalm_girl_jump1">N.ng1</a>, <a href="#Napalm_girl_jump2">N.ng2</a>) Napalm girl: A photo of the scars on the back and arm of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, the "napalm girl", is given in Stockton (2022).<a href="#cite_note-Stockton.2022-61">[61]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#NNC-VQL-more-details_jump1">N.bq1</a>, <a href="#NNC-VQL-more-details_jump2">N.bq2</a>) NNB quotations: See more detailed quotations in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Nguyen_Ai_Quoc_jump">N.naq</a>) Nguyen Ai Quoc: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:Ho%C3%A0ng_Qu%E1%BB%91c_Vi%E1%BB%87t" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Hoàng Quốc Việt">Hoang Quoc Viet</a> recounted in his <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_F8F9FACD595E4A74BCA28655493A1743">1981 interview with the PBS</a>: "I was sent to the southern part of the country at one point to discuss things with our comrades there. The discussion was very heated and it was very difficult to iron things out. Then I happened to mention the name Ho Chi Minh. These people in the south asked me who Ho Chi Minh was. I told them that he was Nguyen Ai Quoc. They all stood up and clapped and said that as I was a representative sent by Ho Chi Minh then there was no need for any further discussion. This was because at that time there was a feud going on between the so called "Old Viet Minhs" and "New Viet Minhs". But when they heard from me that Ho Chi Minh was indeed Nguyen Ai Quoc, they were all overjoyed, saying that if Nguyen Ai Quoc had returned home to lead the movement then everything would be solved, that there should be unity and solidarity."</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Notes_on_Vietnam_history_jump">N.vnh</a>, <a href="#Notes_on_Vietnam_history_jump2">N.vnh2</a>, <a href="#Notes_on_Vietnam_history_jump3">N.vnh3</a>) Notes on Vietnam history: See quotations in Notes on Vietnam history.<a href="#cite_note-VQL.2023a-59">[59]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Original_writer_jump">N.vql</a>) Original creator and writer: <a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Egm4313.s12" class="extiw" title="wikiversity:User:Egm4313.s12">Prof. Loc Vu-Quoc</a>, vuquocloc@yahoo.com, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sites.google.com/site/locvuquoc1/">Publications</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xlH7V2QAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&is_public_preview=1">Google Scholar</a>. Wikipedia <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Egm4313.s12">User:Egm4313.s12</a>.. Citizendium <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Loc_Vu-Quoc">User:Loc Vu-Quoc</a>. See also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Nguyen_Ngoc_Bich">Nguyen Ngoc Bich</a> on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium">Citizendium</a>.</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Political_influence_jump">N.pi</a>) Political influence: A direct quote from the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/contributors/DFA1B1B34B49325008EAB9EB582BF0DE">brief introduction of the contributors</a> to <a href="/wiki/The_China_Quarterly" title="The China Quarterly">The China Quarterly</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/volume/0FB8E56075A0E2649EB01EC2BFB9ABFB">Volume 9</a>, 1962, reads: Dr. Bich's "personal influence upon Cochin Chinese opinion is considerable, and he is regarded by many as a possible successor to President Ngo Dinh Diem".</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Power_vacuum_to_August_Revolution_jump">N.pvar</a>) Power vacuum to August Revolution: "In August and September 1945, the white-bearded Ho Chi Minh emerged as the winner of the Indochina game. ... He expected an Allied invasion and prepared himself for assisting the invading forces. Instead he got a power vacuum and a sudden Japanese surrender. This provided him with an occasion more favorable for bloodless revolution than he could ever have imagined. He then proclaimed the republic that would later defeat both France and the United States."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">[17]</a>:73</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Primary_sources,_quotations_jump1">N.psq1</a>, <a href="#Primary_sources,_quotations_jump2">N.psq2</a>, <a href="#Primary_sources,_quotations_jump3">N.psq3</a>) Primary sources, quotations: See primary sources, extensive notes and quotations in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a> and Notes on Vietnam History.<a href="#cite_note-VQL.2023a-59">[59]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Taberd_Cochin_China_jump">N.tcc</a>) Taberd Cochin China: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Louis_Taberd" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Jean-Louis Taberd">Jean-Louis Taberd</a> was likely among the first to explain the meaning of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochin_China" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Cochin China">Cochin China</a>" in his 1837 scientific article; see quotation in Notes on Vietnam History.<a href="#cite_note-VQL.2023a-59">[59]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#They_in_Atlantic_Charter_jump">N.tac</a>) "They" in Atlantic Charter: "They" here means <a href="/wiki/FDR" class="mw-redirect" title="FDR">FDR</a> and <a href="/wiki/Churchill" class="mw-redirect" title="Churchill">Churchill</a> and their respective governments.<a href="#cite_note-FRUS-Atlantic.1941-35">[35]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Virginia_Thompson_jump">N.vt</a>) (Virginia) Thompson was the first British historian with a deep knowledge on French Indochina with her 1937 book <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/FrenchIndoChina/page/n1/mode/2up">French Indo-China</a> (Internet Archive), George Allen & Unwin LTD, London. Also see the review of this book: French Indo-China By Virginia Thompson (New York: Macmillan Company, 1937, pp.516, $5.00), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/43/4/876/70968">reviewed by H.I. Priestley</a>, The American Historical Review, Volume 43, Issue 4, July 1938, Pages 876–877, <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/43.4.876">https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/43.4.876</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#US_invasion_of_Indochina_jump">N.uii</a>) US invasion of Indochina: The US was the only country among the Allies (British and Chinese) that could invade Indochina; see Chap. 4, Colliding Plans, in Tønnesson (1991).<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:156</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#US_war_plan_jump">N.uwp</a>) US war plan: "... to confuse the Japanese, possibly the French as well, concerning US intentions. Perhaps Roosevelt meant the plan seriously at first, and then changed it into a deceptive operation when he realized that it could not be carried out ... Indochina came to play a similar role in Roosevelt's war against Japan as Norway occupied in Churchill's war against Germany. For a long time, Churchill toyed with the idea of a Norwegian landing as a way of securing the transport route to Russia and bringing Sweden into the war. Then, when his generals and admirals adamantly refused to carry out the project, Norway instead became the focus of elaborate deception and diversion plans, aiming at inducing Hitler to keep as many troops as possible in an irrelevant theatre."<a href="#cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">[22]</a>:170, 220</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Vietnam-America_troops_jump">N.vat</a>) Vietnam-America troops: "From the group of 110 assembled recruits, their field commander Dam Quang Trung and the Deer Team chose 40 of the 'most promising' young men to begin training immediately. The eager recruits who would be working with the Deer Team were officially christened by Ho Chi Minh the Bo Doi Viet-My, the 'Vietnamese-American Force.'"<a href="#cite_note-Bartholomew-Feis.2006-29">[29]</a>:209 On "August 16, 1945, the Deer Team and the Vietnamese-American Force left Tan Trao... Both Thomas and Vo Nguyen Giap were anxious to leave for Thai Nguyen," which was on their way to Hanoi.<a href="#cite_note-Bartholomew-Feis.2006-29">[29]</a>:216 When the Vietnamese-American Force attacked the Japanese garrison at Thai-Nguyen, "Nguyen Chinh remembered that the surrender document that he typed mentioned the Americans as well: 'We the Liberation Army and the Vietnam-America troops, commanded by the Viet Minh organization, already encircled tightly this garrison. We demand the [Japanese] troops inside the garrison accept the following conditions.' "<a href="#cite_note-Bartholomew-Feis.2006-29">[29]</a>:369 Note 20</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Viet_Minh_manifesto_jump">N.vmm</a>) Viet Minh manifesto: "Union de toutes les couches sociales, de toutes les organisations révolutionnaires, de toutes les minorités ethniques. Alliance avec tous les autres peuples opprimés de l'Indochine. Collaboration avec tous les élements antifascistes français. Un but: la destruction du colonialisme et de l'impérialisme fascistes."<a href="#cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">[27]</a>:97</li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#VQL_Foreword_jump">N.vqf</a>) VQL Foreword: See the Foreword and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bich</a>'s open letter in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911-1966): A Biography<a href="#cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">[8]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Walking_to_Kunming_jump">N.wtk</a>) Walking to Kunming: It takes about two weeks to walk from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vi:P%C3%A1c_B%C3%B3" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:vi:Pác Bó">Pác Bó</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunming" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Kunming">Kunming</a> using likely the same road (among several others) undertaken by the invading Mongols in the thirteen century.<a href="#cite_note-VQL.2023b-62">[62]</a></li></ul> <ul><li>(↑ <a href="#Year_of_the_Pig_jump1">N.ytp1</a>, <a href="#Year_of_the_Pig_jump2">N.ytp2</a>) Year of the Pig: In his interview in the 1968 documentary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_of_the_Pig" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:In the Year of the Pig">In the Year of the Pig</a>, at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pibqRPi8Bo&t=13m56s">Youtube video time 13:56</a>, Paul Mus recounted: "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> said [in 1945], 'I have no army.' That's not true now [in 1968]. 'I have no army.' 1945. 'I have no finance. I have no diplomacy. I have no public instruction. I have just hatred and I will not disarm it until you give me confidence in you.' Now this is the thing on which I would insist because it's still alive in his memory, as in mine. For every time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Ho Chi Minh">Ho Chi Minh</a> has trusted us, we betrayed him."</li></ul> <h2>References</h2> Marr 2013<a href="#cite_note-Marr.2013-63">[63]</a>, <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Buttinger.1967b-1">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Buttinger.1967b_1-0">1.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Buttinger.1967b_1-1">1.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Buttinger.1967b_1-2">1.2</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREF[[Joseph_Buttinger|Buttinger]]1967b"><a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Joseph_Buttinger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Joseph Buttinger (page does not exist)">Buttinger</a>, Joseph (1967b), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamdragonemb02butt/page/n5/mode/2up">Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol.2</a>, Frederik A. Praegers, New York. Retrieved on 25 Feb 2023</cite> </li> <li id="cite_note-Cooper.1970-2">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Cooper.1970_2-0">2.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cooper.1970_2-1">2.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cooper.1970_2-2">2.2</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cooper.1970_2-3">2.3</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Cooper.1970_2-4">2.4</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFCooper1970">Cooper, Chester L. (1970), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/lostcrusadeameri00coop/page/n5/mode/2up">The Lost Crusade: America in Vietnam</a>, Dood, Mead & Company, New York. Retrieved on 7 Mar 2023</cite> </li> <li id="cite_note-Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich-3">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich_3-0">3.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich_3-1">3.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFNguyen-Ngoc-Bich1962">Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich (March 1962), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/abs/vietnaman-independent-viewpoint/91FC9BBCE8F39A365B303AC4118BEBC6">Vietnam—An Independent Viewpoint</a>", <a href="/wiki/The_China_Quarterly" title="The China Quarterly">The China Quarterly</a> 9. Retrieved on 18 Feb 2023</cite>, pp. 105–111. See also the contents of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/volume/0FB8E56075A0E2649EB01EC2BFB9ABFB">Volume 9</a>, which included the articles of many well-known experts on Vietnam history and politics such as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_B._Fall">Bernard B. Fall</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoang_Van_Chi">Hoang Van Chi</a>, Phillipe Devillers (see, e.g., his classic 1952 book Histoire du Viet-Nam in Section <a href="#References">References</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=French_Cochinchina&oldid=1224819233#cite_ref-43">French Cochinchina, Ref. 42</a>), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Honey">P. J. Honey</a>, Gerard Tongas (see, e.g, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.abebooks.com/Jai-v%C3%A9cu-lEnfer-Communiste-Nord-Viet-Nam/31061452118/bd">J'ai vécu dans l'Enfer Communiste au Nord Viet-Nam</a>, Debresse, Paris, 1961, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2300EAC28055ADB13CD8B21AF51F3BBE/S0305741000025340a.pdf/lenfer_communiste_au_nord_vietnam_by_gerard_tongas_paris_les_nouvelles_editions_debresse_1961_463_pp_18_new_francs.pdf">reviewed</a>] by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Honey">P. J. Honey</a>), among others. </li> <li id="cite_note-NNC.2018-4">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.2018_4-0">4.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.2018_4-1">4.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.2018_4-2">4.2</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFNguyen-Ngoc-Chau2018">Nguyen-Ngoc-Chau (2018), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/livre-le_temps_des_ancetres_une_famille_vietnamienne_dans_sa_traversee_du_xxe_siecle_chau_nguyen_ngoc-9782343140834-58952.html">Le Temps des Ancêtres: Une famille vietnamienne dans sa traversée du XXe siècle</a>, L'Harmattan, Paris, France. Retrieved on 18 Feb 2023</cite>. Preface by historian Pierre Brocheux. </li> <li id="cite_note-Tran-Thi-Lien-5"><a href="#cite_ref-Tran-Thi-Lien_5-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFTran-Thi-Lien2002">Tran-Thi-Lien (2002), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12124">Henriette Bui: The narrative of Vietnam's first woman doctor</a>, in Gisele Bousquet and Pierre Brocheux, Viêt Nam Exposé: French Scholarship on Twentieth-Century Vietnamese Society, University of Michigan Press, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780472098057" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 9780472098057</a>, <a href="/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12124">10.3998/mpub.12124</a>, at 278–309</cite>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=aPQfqQB_7K0C&dq=Bui+Quang+Chieu+Ngoc+Bich&pg=PA281">Google Book</a> (search for "Bui Quang Chieu Ngoc Bich"), accessed 20 May 2023. </li> <li id="cite_note-Langguth.2000-6">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Langguth.2000_6-0">6.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Langguth.2000_6-1">6.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Langguth.2000_6-2">6.2</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREF[[A.J._Langguth|Langguth]]2000"><a href="/wiki/index.php?title=A.J._Langguth&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A.J. Langguth (page does not exist)">Langguth</a>, Arthur John (2000), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ourvietnam00ajla">Our Vietnam: The war, 1954–1975</a>, Simon & Schuster, New York. Retrieved on 14 Mar 2023</cite> </li> <li id="cite_note-Honey.1962-7">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Honey.1962_7-0">7.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Honey.1962_7-1">7.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFHoney,_P.J.1962">Honey, P.J., ed. (March 1962), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/volume/0FB8E56075A0E2649EB01EC2BFB9ABFB">Special Issue on Vietnam</a>", <a href="/wiki/The_China_Quarterly" title="The China Quarterly">The China Quarterly</a> 9. Retrieved on 18 Feb 2023</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-NNC.VQL.2023-8">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-0">8.00</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-1">8.01</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-2">8.02</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-3">8.03</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-4">8.04</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-5">8.05</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-6">8.06</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-7">8.07</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-8">8.08</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-9">8.09</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-10">8.10</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NNC.VQL.2023_8-11">8.11</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFNguyen-Ngoc-ChauVu-Quoc-Loc2023">Nguyen-Ngoc-Chau & Vu-Quoc-Loc (2023), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/nguyen-ngoc-bich-1911-1966-a-biography">Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography</a>, Internet Archive. Retrieved on 21 Mar 2023</cite>, <a href="/wiki/index.php?title=CC-BY-SA_4.0&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="CC-BY-SA 4.0 (page does not exist)">CC-BY-SA 4.0</a>. (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Le5jRNs4Ib0FYTZkBdG2tlpAo0jH6q52/view?usp=share_link">Backup copy</a>.) Much of the information in the present article came from this biography, which also contains many relevant and informative photos not displayed here. </li> <li id="cite_note-Pace.2001-9">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Pace.2001_9-0">9.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Pace.2001_9-1">9.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFPace2001">Pace, Eric (2001), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/26/world/ellen-hammer-79-historian-wrote-on-french-in-indochina.html">Ellen Hammer, 79; Historian Wrote on French in Indochina</a></cite>, Mar 26. </li> <li id="cite_note-Hammer.1954-10">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Hammer.1954_10-0">10.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hammer.1954_10-1">10.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hammer.1954_10-2">10.2</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Hammer.1954_10-3">10.3</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFHammer1954">Hammer, Ellen J. (1954), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/struggleforindoc0000hamm_h0h0/page/n6/mode/2up">The Struggle for Indochina</a>, Stanford University Press, Stanford, California. Retrieved on 11 Mar 2023</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Osborne.1967-11">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Osborne.1967_11-0">11.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Osborne.1967_11-1">11.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFOsborne1967">Osborne, Milton (1967), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/40200203">Viet-Nam: The Search for Absolutes</a>", International Journal 22 (4): 647–654, <a href="/wiki/Digital_object_identifier" title="Digital object identifier">DOI</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40200203">10.2307/40200203</a>. Retrieved on 18 Feb 2023</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Lancaster.1961-12">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Lancaster.1961_12-0">12.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lancaster.1961_12-1">12.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFLancaster1961">Lancaster, Donald (1961), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/emancipationoffr0000lanc/page/n5/mode/2up">The Emancipation of French Indochina</a>, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Oxford University Press, New York; reprinted by Octagon Books, New York, 1975. Retrieved on 11 Mar 2023</cite> </li> <li id="cite_note-Lady.Borton.2020-13">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Lady.Borton.2020_13-0">13.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Lady.Borton.2020_13-1">13.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFLady_Borton2020">Lady Borton (2020), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vietnamnet.vn/en/we-never-knewnapalm-use-during-vietnams-french-american-war-638460.html">WE NEVER KNEW: Napalm use during Vietnam's French-American War</a></cite>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://vietnamnet.vn/">vietnamnet.vn</a>, May 5. Also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.is/6csXE">archive.is 2024.10.19</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Logevall.2012-14">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-0">14.00</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-1">14.01</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-2">14.02</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-3">14.03</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-4">14.04</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-5">14.05</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-6">14.06</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-7">14.07</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-8">14.08</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-9">14.09</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-10">14.10</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-11">14.11</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-12">14.12</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-13">14.13</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-14">14.14</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-15">14.15</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-16">14.16</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-17">14.17</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-18">14.18</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-19">14.19</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-20">14.20</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-21">14.21</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-22">14.22</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-23">14.23</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-24">14.24</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-25">14.25</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-26">14.26</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Logevall.2012_14-27">14.27</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFLogevall2012">Logevall, Fredrik (2012), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/embersofwarfallo0000loge">Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam</a>, Random House, New York. Retrieved on 12 Apr 2012</cite>, 864 pp. Winner of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/fredrik-logevall">2013 Pulitzer Prize in History</a>: "For a distinguished and appropriately documented book on the history of the United States, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000). A balanced, deeply researched history of how, as French colonial rule faltered, a succession of American leaders moved step by step down a road toward full-blown war" • Winner of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sah.columbia.edu/content/prizes/francis-parkman-prize/2013-fredrik-logevall-embers-war-fall-empire-and-making">2013 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians</a> • Winner of the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://americanlibraryinparis.org/fredrik-logevall-reflects-on-vietnam-different-dreams-same-footsteps/">2013 American Library in Paris Book Award</a> • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cfr.org/past-winners-arthur-ross-book-award">2013 Gold Medal</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cfr.org/arthur-ross-book-award">Arthur Ross Book Award</a> • Finalist for the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cundillprize.com/winners/2013">2013 Cundill Prize in Historical Literature</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Caffery.1945-15">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Caffery.1945_15-0">15.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Caffery.1945_15-1">15.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFCaffery1945">Caffery, Jefferson (1945-03-13), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v06/d175">The Ambassador in France (Caffery) to the Secretary of State</a></cite>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1945v06">Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS): Diplomatic Papers, 1945, The British Commonwealth, The Far East, Volume VI</a>. (<a href="/wiki/index.php?title=Edward_Stettinius_Jr.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Edward Stettinius Jr. (page does not exist)">Edward Stettinius Jr.</a> was the Secretary of State on 1945 Mar 13.) </li> <li id="cite_note-Patti.1981-16"><a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1981_16-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREF1981"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_3267C58E4C104A54A0AFDF230D618AE6">Vietnam: A Television History; Roots of a War; Interview with Archimedes L. A. Patti, 1981</a>, 1981-04-01</cite> </li> <li id="cite_note-Tonnesson.2007-17">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-0">17.00</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-1">17.01</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-2">17.02</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-3">17.03</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-4">17.04</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-5">17.05</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-6">17.06</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-7">17.07</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-8">17.08</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-9">17.09</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-10">17.10</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-11">17.11</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-12">17.12</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-13">17.13</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-14">17.14</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-15">17.15</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-16">17.16</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-17">17.17</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-18">17.18</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-19">17.19</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-20">17.20</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-21">17.21</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2007_17-22">17.22</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFTønnesson2007">Tønnesson, Stein (2007), Franklin Roosevelt, Trusteeship and Indochina: A reassessment, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and the Cold War, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, at 56-73</cite>, edited by M.A. Lawrence and F. Logevall. </li> <li id="cite_note-Marr.1995-18"><a href="#cite_ref-Marr.1995_18-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFMarr1995">Marr, David G. (1995), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnam1945quest0000marr/mode/2up?view=theater">Vietnam 1945: The Quest for Power</a>, University of California Press, Berkeley. Retrieved on 2024-07-05</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Rotter.2007-19"><a href="#cite_ref-Rotter.2007_19-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFRotter2007">Rotter, Andrew J. (2007), Chronicle of a War Foretold: The United States and Vietnam, 1945-1954, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and the Cold War, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, at 282-306</cite>, edited by M.A. Lawrence and F. Logevall. </li> <li id="cite_note-Patti.1980-20">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-0">20.00</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-1">20.01</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-2">20.02</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-3">20.03</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-4">20.04</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-5">20.05</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-6">20.06</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-7">20.07</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-8">20.08</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-9">20.09</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-10">20.10</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-11">20.11</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-12">20.12</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-13">20.13</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-14">20.14</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-15">20.15</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-16">20.16</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-17">20.17</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-18">20.18</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-19">20.19</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-20">20.20</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-21">20.21</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-22">20.22</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-23">20.23</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-24">20.24</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-25">20.25</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-26">20.26</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-27">20.27</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-28">20.28</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-29">20.29</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-30">20.30</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-31">20.31</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-32">20.32</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-33">20.33</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-34">20.34</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-35">20.35</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-36">20.36</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-37">20.37</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-38">20.38</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-39">20.39</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-40">20.40</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-41">20.41</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-42">20.42</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-43">20.43</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-44">20.44</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-45">20.45</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-46">20.46</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-47">20.47</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-48">20.48</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Patti.1980_20-49">20.49</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFPatti1980">Patti, Archimedes (1980), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/whyvietnamprelud0000patt/mode/2up?view=theater">Why Viet Nam? Prelude to America's Albatross</a>, Berkeley: University of California Press, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780520047839" class="internal mw-magiclink-isbn">ISBN 978-0520047839</a></cite> </li> <li id="cite_note-Marr.1984-21"><a href="#cite_ref-Marr.1984_21-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFMarr1984">Marr, David G. (1984), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnamesetradit0000marr">Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945</a>, University of California Press, Berkeley. Retrieved on 2024-05-05</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Tonnesson.1991-22">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-0">22.00</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-1">22.01</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-2">22.02</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-3">22.03</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-4">22.04</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-5">22.05</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-6">22.06</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-7">22.07</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-8">22.08</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-9">22.09</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-10">22.10</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-11">22.11</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-12">22.12</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-13">22.13</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-14">22.14</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-15">22.15</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-16">22.16</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-17">22.17</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-18">22.18</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-19">22.19</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-20">22.20</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-21">22.21</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-22">22.22</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.1991_22-23">22.23</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFTønnesson1991">Tønnesson, Stein (1991), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.prio.org/publications/11461">The Vietnamese Revolution of 1945: Roosevelt, Ho Chi Minh and de Gaulle in a world at war</a>, SAGE Publications, London. Retrieved on 2024-05-05</cite>. Link to this book at the Norwegian National Library. </li> <li id="cite_note-Vigneras.1957-23"><a href="#cite_ref-Vigneras.1957_23-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFVigneras">Vigneras, Marcel, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.history.army.mil/html/books/011/11-6/index.html">Rearming the French</a>, U.S. Army in World War II, Center for Military History CMH Pub 11-6, Washington DC, 444 pages.</cite> </li> <li id="cite_note-Tonnesson.2010-24">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-0">24.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-1">24.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-2">24.2</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-3">24.3</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-4">24.4</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-5">24.5</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-6">24.6</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-7">24.7</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Tonnesson.2010_24-8">24.8</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFTønnesson2010">Tønnesson, Stein (2010), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/vietnam1946howwa0000tnne/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater">Vietnam 1946: How the War Began</a>, University of California Press, Berkeley, California. Retrieved on 2024-05-05</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-NYT_Paul_Mus_obituary-25">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_Paul_Mus_obituary_25-0">25.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-NYT_Paul_Mus_obituary_25-1">25.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="[[:Template:Harvid]]">"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1969/08/16/archives/dr-paul-mus-dies-a-yale-professor-southeast-asia-authority-also.html">Dr. Paul Mus dies; a Yale professor. Southeast Asia authority also taught in France</a>", New York Times, 16 August 1969</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Brocheux.2007-26"><a href="#cite_ref-Brocheux.2007_26-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFBrocheux2007">Brocheux, Pierre (2007), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/ho-chi-minh-a-biography-pdfdrive">Ho Chi Minh: A Biography</a>, translated by Claire Duiker, Cambridge University Press, New York. Retrieved on 2024-05-20</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Devillers.1952-27">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-0">27.00</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-1">27.01</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-2">27.02</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-3">27.03</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-4">27.04</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-5">27.05</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-6">27.06</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-7">27.07</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-8">27.08</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-9">27.09</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-10">27.10</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-11">27.11</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-12">27.12</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-13">27.13</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-14">27.14</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-15">27.15</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Devillers.1952_27-16">27.16</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFDevillers1952">Devillers, Philippe (1952), Histoire du Viêt-Nam de 1940 à 1952, Seuil, Paris.</cite> See also <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/21651">Philippe Devillers (1920–2016), un secret nommé Viêt-Nam, Mémoires d'Indochine</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220629093316/https://indomemoires.hypotheses.org/21651">Internet archived 2022.06.29</a>. Patti (1980), p.542, wrote about Devillers (1952): "The most accurate French account of the period; barring several omissions and minor inaccuracies generally attributable to his sources and to the lack of American documentation, it is by far one of the more reliable histories." </li> <li id="cite_note-Fenn.1973-28"><a href="#cite_ref-Fenn.1973_28-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFFenn1973">Fenn, Charles (1973), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/hochiminhbiograp0000fenn/page/n3/mode/2up?view=theater">Ho Chi Minh: A Biographical Introduction</a>, Studio Vista, London. Retrieved on 2023-12-27</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Bartholomew-Feis.2006-29">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Bartholomew-Feis.2006_29-0">29.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bartholomew-Feis.2006_29-1">29.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bartholomew-Feis.2006_29-2">29.2</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bartholomew-Feis.2006_29-3">29.3</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bartholomew-Feis.2006_29-4">29.4</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bartholomew-Feis.2006_29-5">29.5</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFBartholomew-Feis2006">Bartholomew-Feis, Dixee (2006), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/osshochiminhunex0000bart">The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against Japan</a>, University Press of Arkansas, Lawrence, Kansas. Retrieved on 2024-05-23</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Tram-Huong.2003-30"><a href="#cite_ref-Tram-Huong.2003_30-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFTram-Huong2003">Tram-Huong (2003), Đêm trắng của Đức Giáo Tông (Sleepless Night of the <a href="/wiki/Cao_Dai" title="Cao Dai">Cao Dai</a> Pope), People's Police Publishing House, Vietnam</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-NNC.2021-31"><a href="#cite_ref-NNC.2021_31-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFNguyen-Ngoc-Chau2021">Nguyen-Ngoc-Chau (20 Jul 2021), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/44590508">The basic truths on Caodaism</a>, education.edu</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Marr.2007-32"><a href="#cite_ref-Marr.2007_32-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFMarr2007">Marr, David G. (2007), Creating Defense Capacity in Vietnam, 1945-1947, The First Vietnam War: Colonial Conflict and the Cold War, Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, at 74-104</cite>, edited by M.A. Lawrence and F. Logevall. </li> <li id="cite_note-Gunn.2013-33"><a href="#cite_ref-Gunn.2013_33-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFGunn2013">Gunn, Geoffrey C. (2013-03-25), "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/58759811.pdf">Prelude to the First Indochina War: New Light on the Fontainebleau Conference of July-September 1946 and Aftermath</a>", Southeast Asian Studies Annual Report 54: 19-51</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Giniger.1984-34"><a href="#cite_ref-Giniger.1984_34-0">↑</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFGiniger1984">Giniger, Henry (1984-10-14), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/14/books/close-to-events.html">America Inside Out, Close to Events, book review</a></cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-FRUS-Atlantic.1941-35">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-FRUS-Atlantic.1941_35-0">35.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FRUS-Atlantic.1941_35-1">35.1</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FRUS-Atlantic.1941_35-2">35.2</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FRUS-Atlantic.1941_35-3">35.3</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="[[:Template:Harvid]]"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/atlantic-conf">The Atlantic Conference & Charter, 1941</a>, Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations, 1937–1945, US Dept of State, 1941. Retrieved on 21 Apr 2023</cite>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Ho_to_Byrnes.1945-36">↑ <a href="#cite_ref-Ho_to_Byrnes.1945_36-0">36.0</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ho_to_Byrnes.1945_36-1">36.1</a> <cite style="font-style:normal" class="external text" id="CITEREFHo-Chi-Minh1945">Ho-Chi-Minh (1945-10-22), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1945_Oct_22_Ho_Chi_Minh_letter_to_US_Secretary_of_State_Byrnes_p1.jpg">Letter to US Secretary of State James F. 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