“Dereliction of Duty”
I’ve been watching “The Road to Pearl Harbor” on AmazonPrime. I was surprised to find out that Ho Chi Minh tried to approach Wilson at Versailles. And I seem to remember, could be wrong, that he later tried to approached the US after WWII offering us naval bases, but was rebuffed because of France.
“I was surprised to find out that Ho Chi Minh tried to approach Wilson at Versailles. “
Ho Chi Minh was already a committed Socialist by that time and in 1920 would be a founding member of the French Communist party. Far from being some sort of Vietnamese patriot he routinely turned in Vietnamese independence activists to the French, because the only sort of independence he was interested in was one controlled by the Communist Party.