HO CHI MINN

(Nguyen Ai Quoc)


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A people who have courageously opposed French domination for more than eighty years, a people who have fought side by side with the Allies against the Fascists during these last years, such a people must be free and independent. For these reasons, we, members of the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, solemnly declare to the world that Vietnam has the right to be a free and independent country and in fact it already has been so. The entire Vietnamese people are determined to mobilize all their physical and mental strength, to sacrifice their lives and property in order to safeguard their independence and liberty.
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Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym.

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The Demands of the Vietnamese People
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Nguyen Ai Quoc was early pseudonym. At the Versailles WWI Peace Conference a young, 29 year old, Ho Chi Minh showed up and tried to present his petition for Vietnamese independence to Woodrow Wilson and the other non-French leaders. (Indochina was then a French colony.) Little attention was paid to him and his petition. Even though Wilson was for national self determination, all the other major WWI Allies had overseas colonial empires. After suffering losses from German aggression they were interested in getting those back plus reparations—not ceding away any of their then existing territory. They paid little attention to Wilson on the self determination issue and the Senate would not support Wilson on the League of Nations which then might have pressed for self determination. Ho was snubbed. It was a costly, unjust snub for the world.

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Remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.
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