The First Time – March 6, 1946, Accord
Ho Chi Minh was once repeatedly called ” Ho Chi Minh bán nước” (Ho Chi Minh sells the country) by the people of the North. That was the period in the early months of 1946 when the French parliament was in the hands of the Communist Party and the Socialist Party, led by Prime Ministers Felix Gouin and Maurice Thorez. Thorez at that time was President of the French Communist Party. The two sides, Ho Chi Minh and France, colluded so that France would return to Vietnam to rule, not as a colonialist, but as a communist dictatorship.
On February 13, 1946, French General Leclerc cabled back to France that he had negotiated with the Viet Minh, emphasizing that Ho Chi Minh was prepared to avoid using the word “independence.” On February 16, 1946, Ho Chi Minh proposed the wishes of the Viet Minh faction to the French mother, that is, to become a member of the French Union. Ho did not mention the French bloc that was ruling in Indochina (French Federation) that Admiral Thierry d’Argenlieu was in power. Ho Chi Minh ignored the two words “independence” for Vietnam.
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