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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (64536)	3/14/2007 10:53:29 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) of 116555

The bashing of the military for things not being right is old. uea.ac.uk Vietnam was "lost" about here I think... He petitioned American President Harry Truman for support for Vietnamese independence, but was rebuffed due to French pressure on the U. S., and his known communist activities. en.wikipedia.org and the path to the Vietnam war sealed. No point blaming the military though. All of Vietnams potential leaders were communists, decades of French Colonialism does that to a people. another odd moment in Vietnams French Colonial history... In February 1950 Ho met with Stalin and Mao in Moscow after the Soviet Union recognized his government. They all agreed that China would be responsible for backing the Viet Minh [10]. Mao's emissary to Moscow stated in August that China planned to train 60-70,000 Viet Minh in the near future. [11] China's support enabled Ho to escalate the fight against France. According to a story told by Journalist Bernard Fall, after fighting the French for several years, Ho decided to negotiate a truce. The French negotiators arrived at the meeting site, a mud hut with a thatched roof. Inside they found a long table with chairs and were surprised to discover in one corner of the room a silver ice bucket containing ice and a bottle of good Champagne which should have indicated that Ho was ready to negotiate. One demand by the French was the return to French custody of a number of Japanese military officers who had been helping the Vietnamese armed forces, in order for them to stand trial for war crimes committed during World War II. Ho replied that the Japanese officers were allies and friends which he could not betray. Then he walked out, to seven more years of war. (From Last Reflections on a War, Fall's last book, published posthumously.) In 1954, after the important defeat of France at the Battle of Ði?n Biên Ph?, France was forced to give up its empire in Indochina. en.wikipedia.org

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