Merlin, Martial, 117–18
Messmer, Pierre, 403
Mikoyan, Anastas, 493
Modernization Society (Duy Tan Hoi), 26
Moffat, Abbot Low, 341, 377–78, 390–91, 392
Molotov, Vyacheslav, 456, 471–72
Monet, Paul, 108–9
Monmousseau, Gaston, 66
Morlière, Louis, 382, 384, 389, 392, 396, 397, 400
Moscow, 211–14
Mountbatten, Louis, 334, 337, 355
Moutet, Marius, 365, 371, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 400, 401
Mukden Incident, 229
Mus, Paul, 361, 403
Na San, 442
Nagy, Imre, 497
Nam Viet, 165
Nanywe, 236
National Academy (Quoc Hoc), xvi, 33–34, 36, 37, 48, 61, 179
National Advisory Group, 361
National Council for Reconciliation and Concord, 564
National Defense Guard (Ve quoc Quan), xvi–xvii, 329, 347, 358
National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (National Liberation Front; NLF), xvii, 525–26, 527, 528, 530, 545, 141, 553, 564
National Liberation Committee (Uy Ban Giai Phong Dan Toc), xvii, 306, 317, 321
National Liberation League, 252
National Peasant Liaison Committee, 480–81
National People’s Congress, 303, 305, 324
National Planning Council, 474
National Resistance Committee, 361, 362
National Salvation Army (Cuu Quoc Quan), 262, 279, 296
National Salvation Associations (Cuu quoc hoi), xvii, 251, 277, 308, 351
nationalist movements:
communism and, 65–66, 216–19, 221, 222, 223, 239, 252–54, 272, 348, 420, 438–39
Franco-Vietminh War and, 411–12
see also Vietnamese independence movement; specific organizations
Nationalist Party, see Kuomintang
National Peoples Congress, 307, 324
National United Front (Mat tran Quoc gia Thong nhat) (1945), 315
National United Front (1947), 408, 412
National United Front for Vietnam (Lien Viet Front), xvi, 438, 473
see also Vietminh Front
Navarre, Henri, 447, 448, 456
Navarre Plan, 447–48
Nazi Party, see Germany, Nail
Nechayev, Sergey, 135
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 458, 462, 463, 508
New Delhi, 508
New Vietnamese Revolutionary Party (Tan Viet Revolutionary Party), xvii, 138, 140, 141, 159, 174, 218
New York, N.Y., 50, 51
New York Times, 379, 399
Nghe An, 14–15
Nghe-Tinh revolt, 214, 215, 216
Nghia Lo, 442
Nghiem Ke To, 272
Ngo Dinh Diem, 348, 356, 468–69, 471, 472, 473, 509, 510–11, 512, 515, 524, 529, 530, 532, 533
coup against, 534, 538
public anger against, 526
U.S. and, 468, 469, 470, 534, 538
Ngo Dinh Khoi, 320, 348, 356
Ngo Dinh Nhu, 511, 526, 532, 534
Ngo Duc Tri, 194, 195, 197
Nguoi Lao kho (The Oppressed), 184
Nguyen Ai Quoc, see Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen An Ninh, 111–12, 138–39, 166, 218, 234
Nguyen Anh (Gia Long), 11, 19
Nguyen Binh, 384–85, 388, 408, 411, 437, 441, 492
Nguyen Cao Ky, 551
Nguyen Chi Thanh, 304, 524, 527, 528, 531, 535–36, 543, 545, 548, 551, 552
Nguyen Duc Canh, 194
Nguyen dynasty, 11, 12, 19, 165
Nguyen Hai Than, 140, 144, 145, 272, 273, 327, 329, 338, 349, 351, 352–53, 361, 383, 386
Nguyen Huu Can, 220
Nguyen Khang, 308, 309–10, 311, 312
Nguyen Luong Bang, 131, 169–70, 179, 304, 320, 365, 556, 561
Nguyen o Phap, see Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Phong Sac, 177, 179, 189, 194, 197
Nguyen Quyen, 35
Nguyen Sinh Cung, see Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen Sinh Khiem, 17, 20, 24, 25, 26, 27, 33, 38, 206, 386
Nguyen Sinh Sac (Nguyen Sinh Huy), 15–23, 25, 27–29, 31–32, 38–41, 43, 48–49, 82
death of, 206
official appointment of, 24–29
pho bang degree of, 22, 27, 38
Nguyen Sinh Tro, 15, 16
Nguyen Sinh Vuong (Nguyen Sinh Nham), 15
Nguyen Sinh Xin, 20, 21
Nguyen Tat Thanh, see Ho Chi Minh
Nguyen The Truyen, 78, 85, 139, 157
Nguyen Thi Kep, 16–17, 21
Nguyen Thi Minh Giang, 240
Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, 185, 198–99, 206, 219–20, 221, 223, 240
attest and execution of, 247–48
Le Hong Phong’s marriage to, 225
Nguyen Thi Thanh, 17, 21, 38, 48, 206, 386
Nguyen Thuong Hien, 125
Nguyen Thuong Huyen, 125, 127
Nguyen Trai, 10, 27
Nguyen Trong Nghia, 189, 197
Nguyen Tuong Tam, 367, 368, 384
Nguyen Van Binh, 198
Nguyen Van Cu, 234, 239, 248, 254
Nguyen Van Linh, 472, 526, 568
Nguyen Van Sam, 314–15, 319
Nguyen Van Tam, 441
Nguyen Van Tao, 157, 387
Nguyen Van Thieu, 2, 551, 558
Nguyen Van Thinh, 373
Nguyen Van Tram, 220
Nguyen Van Xuan, 412
Nhan Dan, 441, 459, 476, 479, 480–81, 490, 494, 504, 507, 521 522, 540, 559
Nhan Van, 490
Nixon, Richard M., 454–55, 560, 561, 564
NLF (National Liberation Front), xvii, 525–26, 527, 528, 530, 542, 545, 553, 564
North Vietnam, see Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Notre Voix, 232, 233, 234, 240
Noulens, Hilaire, 166, 168–70, 180, 185, 190, 193, 196–200
arrest of, 201
Octon, Paul Vigné d’, 67
Operation Léa, 407–10, 411
Orgwald article, 218–19
OSS, see U.S. Office of Strategic Services
O’Sullivan, James, 390, 393, 400, 404, 405, 406
Outrey, Maurice, 67
Overseas Executive Committee, 214, 218, 219, 221
OWI, see U.S. Office of War Information
Pac Bo, 250–51, 258, 260, 263, 281, 293–94
Paise, 291
Paria, Le (The Pariah), 79–81
Paris, 49, 56
Ho in, 54–86, 148, 371–73, 374–80
Ho’s press conferences in, 375, 377
peace talks in, 559, 560, 564
Paris Agreement, 1
Path of Revolution in the south, The (Le Duan), 495–96, 497–98
Pathet Lao, xvii, 456, 457, 458, 528, 529
Patti, Archimedes “Al,” 292–93, 297, 299, 300, 318–19, 324, 327, 328, 331, 335, 336, 338, 340–42, 344, 347
PAVN (People’s Army of Vietnam), xvii, 1–2, 504, 540–41, 548
Peasant Council, 91–92
peasant councils (soviets), 179, 188–89
Peasant International, 91, 114, 141, 149
Peasant Movement Institute, 142
peasantry, 90–92, 98, 100, 101, 108, 110, 134, 137, 149, 155, 156, 175–77, 187, 191, 216–18, 311, 480–81, 488, 511
alliance between workers and, 181, 182, 183, 186
famine and, 295, 307–87
Franco-Vietminh conflict and, 444–46
Peng Dehuai, 520
Peng Pai, 142
People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN), xvii, 1–2, 504, 540–41, 548
People’s Daily, 451
People’s Liberation Armed Forces (PLAF; Viet Cong; Viet Communists; Nhan Dan Giai Phong Quan), xvii, xviii, 1, 527, 528, 530, 531, 533, 539, 540–43, 551, 553, 557
People’s Liberation Army (PLA), 230, 415, 416, 418, 419, 420, 426, 427
Korea and, 449
People’s Republic of China, see China, People’s Republic of
&n
bsp; People’s Revolutionary Parties, 439
Personalist Labor Party, 510–11
Pham Hong Thai, 117–19, 151
Pham Hung, 501, 524
Pham Ngoc Thach, 314, 404–5, 406, 417
Pham Ngoc Tho, 314
Pham Quynh, 320, 356
Pham Van Bach, 334, 335
Pham Van Dong, 240–42, 245–46, 248, 249, 252, 269, 272, 275, 295, 297, 321, 369, 374, 375, 383, 385, 387–88, 441, 456–59, 467, 500, 504, 507, 532, 536, 541, 542, 549–50, 561, 567
background of, 240
“four points” proposal of, 545, 549, 559
Pham Viet Tu, 285, 286
Phan Boi Chau, 25–27, 30, 31, 37, 40, 107, 108, 116, 118–20, 126, 136–40, 144, 151, 206, 243
arrest and trial of, 126–27, 138
Phan Chu Trinh, 29–31, 36–40, 49, 54, 57–59, 68, 69, 77, 81, 82, 86, 128, 490
arrest of, 53, 57, 107
death of, 128–29, 138, 139
Ho’s letters to, 51, 53, 57
Phan Dang Luu, 246, 247
Phan Dinh Phung, 13–14, 15, 24, 117, 252
Phan Ke Toai, 309
Phan Khoi, 489, 490, 491
Phan Van Truong, 53, 54, 57–58, 59, 79
Phelan, Dan, 299, 301
Philippines, 357, 405
Phung Chi Kien, 214, 220, 237, 238, 241, 242, 248–50, 252, 260, 262–63
Pignon, Léon, 339, 353, 354, 363, 365–66, 415, 431
Pioch, Georges, 82
PLA (People’s Liberation Army), 230, 415, 416, 418, 419, 420, 426, 427
Korea and, 449
PLAF, see People’s Liberation Armed Forces
Pleven, René, 447
Poincaré, Raymond, 110
Poland, 459
Poldès, Léo, 55
Popular Front, 226, 233, 234, 236, 239
Potsdam Conference, 317
Prague, 90
Pravda, 502
PRC, see China, People’s Republic of
Pritt, D. N., 207–8
Precès de la colonisation franaise, Le (“French Colonialism on Trial”) (Ho Chi Minh), 96
Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG), 1
Qing dynasty, 49
Quang Ngai, 518
Quoc, see Ho Chi Minh
Quoc Dan Dang Dong Duong (Indochinese Nationalist Party), 119
Quynh Luu, 486–87, 490
Radford, Arthur, 454, 455
Ramadier, Paul, 402, 407
Red River valley, 12, 13, 19, 165, 187, 243, 260, 262, 277, 279, 295, 307, 309, 324, 457, 458, 466, 476, 495
in Franco-Vietminh War, 409, 431, 432–33, 434–35, 441, 448, 454
Reed, Charles, 378, 390, 406
Republic of Vietnam (RVN; South Vietnam; Viet Nam Cong Hoa), xvii, 465, 466, 467, 468–70, 472, 479, 492–99, 503–4, 509, 511–14, 515–16, 521, 523–28, 530–54, 557
agrovilles in, 509–11, 518, 530
attacks on U.S. installations in, 543
constitution of, 510, 526
coups in, 534, 551
in division of Vietnam, 457–58, 459–61
resistance forces in, 472, 518–19, 526, 527, 528–29, 533, 534, 539
riots in, 532
strategic hamlets in, 530–31
United Nations and, 500–501
U.S. and, 459, 469–70, 473, 495, 510, 511, 515, 516, 523–24, 525, 528–54, 556–61, 564–65
“Resistance and Reconstruction” resolution, 350–51
Resistance Will Win, The (Truong Chinh), 428
Resolution 15, 513, 514
Restoration Society, 244
“Revendications du peuple annamite” (Demands of the Annamite People) (Ho Chi Minh), 58–60, 61–62
Revolutionary Path, The (Ho Chi Minh), 132–37
Revolutionary Youth League, see Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League
rice, 175, 176, 197, 307, 325, 553
Robin, René, 180
Romanian Communist Party, 522
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 243, 266, 276, 283, 296, 327, 330, 377
Roth, Andrew, 427
Roy, M. N., 95, 98, 122, 139
rubber plantations, 173–74, 175, 176
Russia, 26, 114, 364
see also Soviet Union
RVN, see Republic of Vietnam
Sabbatier, Gabriel, 299
Safarov, G., 89
Saigon, 2, 12, 38, 110–11, 247, 314, 335–37, 394
August Revolution and, 315–16, 332–33
bombings in, 543
French control returned to, 335
growth of, 42–43
Ho in, 42, 43
violence in, 335–36
Sainteny, Jean, 300, 318, 319, 329, 339, 344, 353–59, 362–64, 365–68, 370–72, 374, 377–80, 382–84, 392–93, 395–97, 463–64, 552
Salan, Raoul, 368, 369, 409, 415, 447
Sam Neua, 443
Sarraut, Albert, 58, 60, 61, 66, 67, 69, 76, 81, 83, 84, 109, 110, 138, 175, 372
Schoenbrun, David, 379, 399
SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization), xviii, 479, 516
Shanghai, 147, 209–10, 231
May 30 incident in, 142
Shaplen, Robert, 301
Shaw, George Bernard, 211
Shaw, Rudolph, 282–83, 286–87, 291
Shinn, Mac, 293–94
Siam, 13, 76, 120, 147, 148, 154, 170, 216, 222, 246, 247
Ho in, 150–53, 162–63
Siamese Communist Party, 170–71
Singapore, 162, 208, 209
Slim, William J., 333–34
Smirnov, Alexander P., 92
Snow, Edgar, 547
socialism, 62–66, 439, 575
Asian nationalism and, 62–63
in France, 62, 63, 70–86
Ho’s interest in, 62, 64
transition to, in Vietnam, 438–39, 466, 467, 503, 504, 506–7, 516, 519, 521–22, 523
transition to, 1957 declaration on, 501–2, 527
Truong Chinh on, 482
see also communism, Communist Party; specific parties
Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), xvii, 565, 568
Society of Like Minds (Association of Like Minds; Tam Tam Xa), xiii, 116–18, 119, 120
Society of Oppressed Peoples of Asia, 122, 142
Son La, 442
Soong Qingling, 149, 210, 264, 521
South Seas (Nan Yang) Communist Party, 162, 170, 171
South Vietnam, see Republic of Vietnam
Southeast Asia Command (SEAC), 334, 336–37
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO), xviii, 479, 516
Souvarine, Boris, 55, 95
Soviet Union, 87–103, 156, 160, 211–14, 362, 500, 519–20, 568, 570, 571
Asian revolutionaries in, 101
China and, 74, 106, 112, 144, 417, 418, 420–21, 422, 496–97, 502, 519, 520, 522–24, 527, 531, 532, 535, 548
collectivization in, 211
conference of Communist and workers’ parties in, 527–28
Eastern Europe and, 497
Ho in, 86, 88–104, 211–14, 224–28, 420–22, 501, 520, 527–28
Japan and, 303
Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin in, 481–82, 483, 490, 497
Nazi Germany and, 223–24, 239, 248, 258–59
New Economic Policy in, 88, 94–95
purge trials in, 211–12, 213, 223, 469, 571
U.S. and, 343, 351, 354–55, 471, 491–92, 493–94, 501–2, 520
Vietnam and, 328, 330, 341–43, 354, 366, 391–92, 420–23, 426, 430, 450–52, 454, 456–57, 460, 471–73, 493, 500–501, 519–24, 530–32, 535–38, 541–42, 544, 546, 548, 549
soviets (peasant councils), 179, 188–89
Special Political Institute for the Vietnamese Revolution, 129–31, 141
Sprouse, Philip D., 284, 286
SRV (Socialist Republic of Vietnam), xvii, 565, 568
Stalin, Joseph, 3, 74, 92, 95, 98, 99, 156, 157, 211, 226–27, 228, 343, 417, 420–21, 430, 450, 464
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nbsp; Ho and, 421–22
Khrushchev’s denunciation of, 481–82, 483, 490, 497
Mao and, 421, 422
Nazi Germany and, 223–24, 258
purges and, 211–12, 213
Stalin School (University of the Toilers of the East; Institute for the Study of the National and Colonial Questions), 92–94, 101, 124, 212, 227, 256
Stanton, Edwin F., 405
Starobin, Joseph, 443
strategic hamlet program, 530–31
Strong, Anna Louise, 45, 51
student activism, 172–73, 179
Sun Ke, 269
Sun Tzu, 398, 572
Sun Yat-sen, 49, 74–75, 103, 105, 106, 107, 112, 113, 118, 130, 140, 143, 154, 210, 269, 270
death of, 143, 210
Ta Thu Thau, 320, 371
Ta Uyen, 247, 248
Taiwan, 471, 501
Tam Tam Xa (Association of Like Minds; The Society of Like Minds), xiii, 116–18, 119, 120
Tan, Frank, 288, 294
Tan An, 315
Tan Trao (New Tide), 298, 299–300, 303, 305, 394, 399
Tang Tuyet Minh, 143, 198–99
Tao Zhu, 555
Têt offensive, 557–59, 560
Thai Nguyen, 308
Thai Van Giai, 177
Thailand, 423, 425
Thanh Nien (Youth), 121, 122, 124–25, 131–32
Thanh Thai, 33, 35
“Theses on the National and Colonial Questions” (Lenin), 64–66, 71, 90
Third International, see Comintern
Thomas, Allison, 299–300, 301, 303, 307
Thorez, Maurice, 224, 374–75, 379
Tito, Josip Broz, 424
To Huu, 313, 489–90, 538
Ton Duc Thang, 155, 408, 525
Ton That Tuyet, 12, 13
Tong Bo (General Bureau), 305
Tong Minh Phuong, 287, 288
Tonkin, 13, 89–90, 107, 138, 180, 185, 195, 215–16, 239, 242, 247, 312, 354, 355, 375
Franco-Vietminh conflict and, 415, 432, 441, 456
revolt in, 171–72
Tonkin Consultative Assembly, 310
Tonkin Gulf, 540, 541–42, 544
Tonkin Gulf Resolution, 541
Tra Bong, 518
Tran Bao, 270–71
Tran Dan, 489, 490, 491
Tran Dang Ninh, 316, 317, 419, 420
Tran Hung Dao, 153
Tran Huy Lieu, 234, 320, 339, 356, 388
in DRV government, 321, 323
Tran Phu, 147, 180, 185, 186, 189, 192–93, 194, 195–96, 198, 212, 256
arrest of, 196–97, 212
Tran Quoc Hoan, 505, 506, 536
Tran Tien Nam, 76
Tran Trong Kim, 307, 308, 309, 310, 315
Tran Van Cung, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 178, 223
Tran Van Giau, 215, 220, 246, 314–16, 332, 333, 334–35, 336, 337, 376, 384, 510
Tran Van Huong, 2
Trotsky, Leon, 99, 156, 215, 218, 226–27
Truelle, Jacques, 207
Truman, Harry S., 330, 331, 336, 357, 366, 378, 390, 403, 404, 412, 423, 425, 573
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