Nguyen Ngoc Bich

Nguyễn Ngọc Bích (1911–1966) was a French-educated engineer, a Vietnamese "resistance hero" against the French colonists and "one of the most popular local heroes", a French-educated medical doctor, an intellectual and politician, who proposed an alternative viewpoint to avoid the high-casualty, high-cost war between North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

Nguyen-Ngoc-Bich street in the city of Cần Thơ, Vietnam, was named after him to honor and commemorate his sabotaging bridges and heroism Bich returned to Vietnam to work for the French colonial government. After World War II, in 1945, he joined the Viet Minh, became a senior commander in the Vietnamese resistance movement, and insisted on fighting for Vietnam's independence, not for communism.

Suspecting There Ho convened a plenum in 1941 May, and founded the Viet Minh, an anticolonialist organization that Bich joined in 1945. (1=Bich Viet Minh: That Bich joined the Viet Minh in 1945 was mentioned in a French PhD dissertation with page image provided in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.) Ho once again crossed back into China, and walked from the Pác Bó hamlet to Kunming to meet (and to "make friends with" (and thus the status of Bich 's job in the French colonial government). The resulting power vacuum (1=Cao Đài: "Appealing largely to the uneducated and essentially superstitious masses, the Cao Đài mushroomed in size to over five hundred thousand by 1930, giving the French authorities cause for concern.) A schism took place in 1933 when Pham Cong Tac, one of the original founders, organized a secret sect known as Pham Mon to exploit political objectives. With the death of Pope Le Van Trung in 1936, Tac seized control of the temple at Tây Ninh and proclaimed himself 'interim Pope.' From this point on the Cao Đài split into several distinct sects but retained in all of them a rigid rightist political philosophy, conservative in nature and vehemently anticommunist and promonarchical." Citing messages from above, Caodaist priests predicted the certain victory of the Axis." : On 1946 April 10, Nguyen Binh, the equivalent of Võ Nguyên Giáp in the south,

CBS reporter David Schoenbrun interviewed Ho Chi Minh on 1946 September 11, the same day that a telegram was dispatched from the High Commissioner d'Argenlieu to the French Indochina Committee on the arrest of Bich on 1946 August 25. (1=Bich biography: See primary sources and extensive quotations from secondary sources (history books and articles) in Nguyen Ngoc Bich (1911–1966): A Biography.)

as "a monumental work" that "marks a strategic breakthrough in the serious study of Vietnamese politics in America" and as "the most thorough, informative and, over all, the most impressive book on Vietnam yet published in America". Joseph Buttinger wrote in [Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol. 2]

That Nguyen Ngoc Bich was being hunted by the French colonists was described in Joseph Buttinger's book: Miss Hammer cites the case of an emissary sent by Nguyen Ngoc Bich. The French took down his name when he came to their headquarters to negotiate a cease-fire, and "it was soon public knowledge that the French had put a price on his head as well as on that of his commander, Nguyen Ngoc Bich " (ibid., p. 158). ---Joseph Buttinger (1967), Vietnam: A Dragon Embattled, Vol.1, p. 641.

Publications , pp. 105–111. See also the contents of Volume 9, which included the articles of many experts on Vietnam history and politics such as Bernard B. Fall, Hoang Van Chi, Phillipe Devillers (see, e.g., his classic 1952 book Histoire du Viet-Nam in Section References and French French Cochinchina, Ref. 40), P. J. Honey , Gérard Tongas (see, e.g., J'ai vécu dans l'Enfer Communiste au Nord Viet-Nam, Debresse, Paris, 1961, reviewed by P. J. Honey), among others.