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To: maceng2 who wrote (53030)	10/18/2002 6:57:46 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Why did the USA completely fall out of bed with Ho Chi Minh??? Truman did not want the French to take over Indochina again after WWII. I forget the details, but there was a tradeoff with what we wanted from the French in Europe at the time. We then ended up by 1950 with Communist China recognizing Ho, and we opposed him as part of our containment of Communism. Dulles wanted to help out the "Catholic" South against the "Atheist" North after the French left, and that led to the whole mess.

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