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be ouiotod.
3.
The detailed application of this policy
must opend upon such material as becomes available.
however Vietnamese Government personalities,
Clear
in p
icular Bao-Dai, must be built up, and the
crear on of a strong Vietnamese national a rmy and
the reasingly successful participation of Viet-
Nam international organisations, including the
Commonwealth plan, are also telling points.
2.
Conversely Ho Chi Minh must be played down.
As a rationalist he is a wash-out. He is incrcas-
ing), controlled by his three Moscow Communist
lieublants. I has sold out to China and Russia
and hu been forced to accept hordes of Chinese and
even Russian "advisers", (just when the Vietnamese
Goverment is taking increasing charge of its own
affai) in order to obtain foreign aid in his
strups. o against true Vietnamese nationalists.
is Ho Chi Minh and not Bao-Dai who has been forced to
reso to conscription to raise his armed forces.
5.
It
It is realised that in all the foreign
gounes concerned pro-Vietnam publicity is an up-
hill ask: but a good deal can be done.
In Siam,
for emplc, it might be possible to work by
unobtrusively helping the Vietnam Mission to be set
up the 10. In Burma and Indonesia, it may only be
possible to operate by providing facts for the
Govoient, such us information about the true
nature of the Vietminh movement, which will only be
indirect in its impact upon the public. Any
action tending to lessen the effectiveness of the
"Vicbulum News Agency" wherever it operates is
cquy important on the negative side.