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Et un hommage venant des Etats Unis dans le New York Times le 4 Septembre 1969 ,en pleine guerre , dès l’annonce de son décès.
September 4, 1969

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[/SIZE]Ho Chi Minh Was Noted for Success in Blending Nationalism and Communism

By ALDEN WHITMAN

Among 20th-century statesmen, Ho Chi Minh was remarkable both for the tenacity and patience with which he pursued his goal of Vietnamese independence and for his success in blending Communism with nationalism.
From his youth Ho espoused freedom for the French colony of Vietnam. He persevered through years when his chances of attaining his objective were so minuscule as to seem ridiculous. Ultimately, he organized the defeat of the French in 1954 in the historic battle of Dienbienphu. This battle, a triumph of guerrilla strategy, came nine years after he was named President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
After the supposed temporary division of Vietnam at the 17th parallel by the Geneva Agreement of 1954 and after that division became hardened by United States support of Ngo Dinh Diem in the South, Ho led his countrymen in the North against the onslaughts of American military might. In the war, Ho’s capital of Hanoi, among other cities, was repeatedly bombed by American planes.
At the same time Ho was an inspiration for the National Liberation Front, or Vietcong, which operated in South Vietnam in the long, bloody and costly conflict against the Saigon regime and its American allies.
In the war, in which the United States became increasingly involved, especially after 1964, Ho maintained an exquisite balance in his relations with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. These Communist countries, at ideological sword’s points, were Ho’s principal suppliers of foodstuffs and war goods. It was a measure of his diplomacy that he kept on friendly terms with each.
Small and Frail
To the 19 million people north of the 17th parallel and to other millions below it, the small, frail, ivorylike figure of Ho, with its long ascetic face, straggly goatee, sunken cheeks and luminous eyes, was that of a patriarch, the George Washington of his nation. Although his name was not attached to public squares, buildings, factories, airports or monuments, his magnetism was undoubted, as was the affection that the average citizen had for him.
He was universally called « Uncle Ho, » a sobriquet also used in the North Vietnamese press. Before the exigencies of war confined him to official duties, Ho regularly visited villages and towns. Simply clad, he was especially fond of dropping into schools and chatting with the children. Westerners who knew him were convinced that, whatever his guile in larger political matters, there was no pose in his expressions of feeling for the common people.
Indeed, Ho’s personal popularity was such that it was generally conceded, even by many of his political foes, that Vietnam would have been unified under his leadership had the countrywide elections pledged at Geneva taken place. As it was, major segments of South Vietnam were effectively controlled by the National Liberation Front despite the presence of hundreds of thousands of American troops.
Intelligent, resourceful and dedicated, though ruthless, Ho created a favorable impression on many of those who dealt with him. One such was Harry Ashmore of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and former editor of The Arkansas Gazette.
Mr. Ashmore and the late William C. Baggs, editor of The Miami News, were among the last Americans to talk with Ho at length when they visited Hanoi in early 1967.
« Ho was a courtly, urbane, highly sophisticated man with a gentle manner and without personal venom, » Mr. Ashmore recalled in a recent interview. At the meeting Ho was dressed in his characteristic high-necked white pajama type of garment, called a cu-nao, and he wore open-toed rubber sandals. He chain-smoked cigarettes, American-made Salems…

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Ho Chi Minh Was Noted for Success in Blending Nationalism and Communism

Bonjour Dong Phông

Loin de moi l’idée d’insulter qui que ce soit ! Quand on parle de l’histoire en se focalisant sur des cas individuels ,des différences criantes existent. Je suis désolé pour votre famille à cette époque. Sachez simplement que les familles de mes parents dont une originaire de Tra Vinh avaient chèrement payé leur dû aux deux guerres.Si vous m’aviez bien lu ,vous auriez vu que pour moi les deux régimes se ressemblaient

Merci à DédéHoe pour avoir déterré les documents historiques.
Et pour finir deux chiffres de la CIA concernant les élections si elles devaient avoir lieu selon les accords de 1954 .Prévisions: 80% pour le Viet Minh et 20 % pour Diem

A la France et au Vietnam bien sûr (lire l’article ci-dessous.).
Accueil chaleureux pour le professeur Ngo Bao Chau — Vietnam+ (VietnamPlus)