HO CHI MINH, COMMUNIST AGENT
SHUB, ANATOLE
Ho Chi Minh, Communist Agent Indo-Chinese Guerilla 'Hero' an Old Stalinist Hack By ANATOLI SHUB THAT big-time propaganda mill that palmed Marshal Tito and Mao Tse-tung off on the United States...
...Because even if you don't hink Ho Chi Minh is a Communist agent, Stalin does...
...But aren't these just dribs and drabs, "quotations out of context" to slander the "great people's revolutionary democratic independence movement" of Viet Minh...
...our plan is entirely Vietnamese...
...Answer- Marshalli/.ation of the world...
...Well, maybe Ho Chi Minh used to be a Communist...
...Is the dust settling...
...But sometimes Ho can't repress himself...
...He stayed there two years, cavorted with old and new Bolsheviks at the Fifth Comintern Congress...
...With the armies of "agrarian reformer" Mao Tse-tung driving southward, the United States and Britain can't afford to play around with "independent nationalist" Ho Chi Minh...
...IS HO CHI MINH a Communist...
...What's more...
...To soften the American public up for big Communist moves in East Asia, the Stalinist pied-pipers are blowing the same old tunes that led to American apathy toward the surrender of Yugoslavia and China...
...Although the Indo-Chinese Communist party was "dissolved" in 1945, its former members comprise a majority of the one group that counts, the Executive Committee, the Viet Minh's own little Poliburo...
...Ho replied: "Similarity: The New Democracy and our plans are both for the people...
...National independence" and "people's liberation movement" are the Kremlin gimmicks for IndoChina...
...New York Daily Worker columnist Joe Starobin used to be able to tell a Communist when he saw one, too...
...And what about his movement, the Viet Minh (officially the Viet Nam Independence League...
...Any changes recently...
...But unfortunately for Ho's American hucksters, there is also the record of his past activities...
...George Dimitrov's Bulgaria, the count was three Communists in 16 cabinet posts...
...Ho Chi Minh, Communist Agent Indo-Chinese Guerilla 'Hero' an Old Stalinist Hack By ANATOLI SHUB THAT big-time propaganda mill that palmed Marshal Tito and Mao Tse-tung off on the United States is back in action...
...So was Ho's answer last September to the question "What are the similarities and differences between Mao Tse-tung's 'New Democracy' and your plans for Viet Nam...
...What about T i t o i s m? Didn't Yugoslavia recognize Ho...
...Sounds good, doesn't it...
...Ho Chi Minh has a program that sounds delicious enough to be endorsed by the Daughters of the American Revolution (though they might gag at the plank calling for the nationalization of banks belonging to "fascists...
...If that's Titoism, Malenkov is Moshe Pijade in disguise...
...If you hearken to a "non-Communist" like Andrew Roth (the Amerasia kid later barred from Japan by MacArthur), you'll get to thinking that it really doesn't make much difference...
...Next time some one passes these off on you, ask him what he thinks of national independence for Czechoslovakia or people's liberation movements like the Ukrainian Insurgent Army...
...The Commu nist Ho Chi Minh, a leader of the fight against the Japanese, was elected President and headed the Government of Viet N»m...
...Seems he likes capitalist motor cars and cosmopolitan jazz records...
...This is worthy of Stalin himself...
...In well-heeled Asian institutes and sloppy newspapermen's saloons, the lads in the Stalinist know are giving Bao Dai the business: He's a "colonial puppet," a "weakling," and—a new twist— a "playboy...
...government in world affairs at this tune...
...Remember the "heroic Partisans...
...The Communist Party ceased to exist in Viet Nam in 1945...
...That was the label on Mao Tse-tung's brew of Cominform poison...
...he had founded the Viet Minh—a broad national front, as they say in the cadres...
...in Hungary three for 12...
...led by the Communist leader Ho Chi Minh...
...it the only Communist in the government...
...who is respected by the Vietnamese maaaes...
...he was imprisoned for two years...
...In 1925, he was staff attache to Michael Borodin in China, forming the Viet Nam Revolutionary Youth League the same year...
...In 1927 he went back to Moscow, and by 1931, the Communist party of Indo-China (which Ho had organized a year earlier) was recognized as an independent section of the Communist International...
...How about the "People's Democracies...
...roughly the period of "united fronts" and "collective security...
...On June 23, 1948, Radio Moscow declared: "Ho Chi Minh...
...Maybe, if you want to stretch a Leninist point But no one in Indo-China or in the cheery offices of "liberal" magazines has yet disputed the definitive sketch of Ho's regime which appeared in the authoritative columns of the Moscow Bolshevik on December 15, 1947: "The Republic of Viet Nam was proclaimed on August 26, 1945, at the moment of the fall of Japanese imperialism...
...Russia, China, and many other countries...
...All the gent wants, it seems, is 'independence, freedom and peace" (three things which have nothing to do with the "bread and peace" promised by Lenin in 1917 or the "peace and prosperity" verbally dispensed by Guru Henry Wallace...
...With scores of affiliates among youth, women, labor and cultural groups, the Viet Minh reaches down to the village level, is organized on the lines of a well-established "apparatus...
...But by 1941...
...Progressive demo cratlc forces arose to lead the young Republic...
...But Moscow doesn't think so...
...We gave our all to Tito thinking only a few worn-out colonels were against the Mountain King...
...A.—Against Marshalli/ation of the world...
...But on January 31, 1950, the Voice of Stalin hailed the recent Asian Women's Conference at Peking, and happily quoted Ho Chi Minh's delegate as saying: "The Soviet Union looks upon us as one of her own republics...
...3. Denial that the rebel chief is a Communist...
...You can throw in "clerico-fascist De Gasperi," too...
...2. Emphasis on non-Communists in the rebel Popular Front...
...Bao Dai, the "puppet playboy," is the issue, just like "corrupt feudal Chiang" and "militarist reactionary Mikhailovitch...
...In Rumania, the CP went six for 17...
...Q.-'-What is your estimate of of the intentions of the Russian government at this time...
...For a long time nobody even knew Tito's real name, let alone his decades of service to the Comintern...
...Remember the words "agrarian reformers...
...On April 1, 1949, the Khabarovsk transmitter beamed to the Orient a review of Viet Minh history and declared: "The Communist party Is headed by Mr...
...Aren't these just dirty orange peels maliciously tossed into the great revolutionary torrent...
...And -who—outside of a few diplomats and commentators—was ever against Mikhailovitch...
...But in post-war Poland, only four of the 17 cabinet members were officially CP'ers, and in...
...These are: 1. Vilification of the head of the government recognized by the United States...
...Not according to the Soviets' most powerful Siberian radio station...
...If you ask Ho Chi Minh himself about his communism, as one Siamese newspaper did, you get this reply: "When I was young, I studied Buddhism, Confucianism, the -Christian religion, and the doctrines of Karl Marx...
...Take, for example, this telegraphic dialogue with an American correspondent last year: 'Question—What is your estimate of the intentions of the U.S...
...IF THESE WERE the only grease spots on Ho's "independent, democratic" escutcheon, the Communist "experts" might make Ho Chi Minh as popular as Howdy Doody...
...If he answers at all, he'll probably telf you that there are only five Communists in Ho Chi Minh's 17-man Cabinet...
...Nobody's nibbling on that bait right now, but the Communist lie thrives on repetition...
...Arrested by the British at his Hong Kong headquarters in 1931...
...Difference: Chinese New Democracy is Chinese...
...In the old days, it was General Mikhailovitch who was a "monarchist collaborator," then Chiang Kai-shek who was a "corrupt feudalist...
...This gives us much hope...
...Each had some good thing about it...
...This time they're asking us to clamber on the bandwagon of Ho Chi Minh, the Indo-Chinese guerrilla chief who is "President of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam...
...No one quite knows where Ho was from 1933 to 1940...
...We sat around and let the Red Army make Eastern Europe a Soviet province while strun.ming that Soviet siren song...
...The Moscow Radio has been sniffing out Titoism in a lot of unlikely places lately...
...And as for Mao Tse-tung, the slick bowdlerized translation of his pamphlet on The New Democracy made Herbert Hoover sound like a revolutionary firebrand by comparison...
...I have been to England, Prance...
...In "liberal" magazines and Sunday supplements, in syndicated columns and irrelevant book reviews, in lengthy analyses and parenthetical asides, they're selling us another Communist in patriot's clothing...
...Right now, the Communist minstrels are giving out with the dialectic bravura to let you know that while Ho Chi Minh "ain't not-a-Communist," he isn't a Communist either...
...After all, there was almost unanimous good will here toward Chiang as late as 1943...
...Maybe he's a Titoist...
...We'll have to sit and listen to our friends being smeared as "puppet playboys" and like it...
...Maybe...
...if it suits your mood...
...Now the smart boys are smirking about Bao Dai, the former Emperor of Annam who heads the autonomous Viet Nam state within the French Union...
...It seems this grand fighter for "independence, freedom and peace" joined the French Communist party in 1920, and was sent as its delegate to Moscow in 1923...
...He wrote in the London Worker of June 29, 1949: "Among the twenty-one million people of Indo-China, the leading and governing force for almost four years h»s been the revolutionary united front, the Viet Minh...
...Maybe he isn't a real Communist...
Vol. 33 • April 1950 • No. 15
