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To: maceng2 who wrote (161599)	5/8/2005 2:28:52 AM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

You'll find a lot of conflicting stuff, it seems that old Ho tended to tell various things to various people at various times, and they don't all fit together ... also, people tended to lie about him, both his allies and his adversaries ... even the year of his birth [but not the date, strangely] gets listed half a dozen different ways ... still, some of the stories about him are so good that even if they aren't true, they should be ... for instance, he worked as a waiter and then pastry chef under Escoffier in the Ritz Carlton hotel ... somewhere on these threads i posted years ago an article about a famous dinner Escoffier gave during the war, when food was tight but he performed miracles, Ho had left the hotel by that time [i think?] but the author gave considerable detail on his stay there ... maybe he made it up, who knows, it was a great story anyway ... Ho was in England, that is said to be provable, and made his first contact with communists either there or in Paris, in the same rough period, 1910-15 or so Major Archimedes Patti of the OSS - try that in a search with Ho and variations, some interesting stuff will come up, Patti liked Ho and recommended that his people be recognised provisional government for Viet Nam, but by the time Truman was about to make the decision Patti had been ordered to Yugoslavia, he had good serbo-croat skills, or albanian, and was needed there to deal with partisans ... anyway he writes a book after 1975, called Why Viet Nam; Something Something ... says Truman should have heeded his report, and not let de Gaulle try to recolonise the country