DBWI: No aid to Ho Chih Minh?

A minor footnote in American history during the Cold War was President Harry Truman's decision to deliver on aid to Vietnamese nationalist and later President of Vietnam Ho Chih Minh promised by the late President Franklin Roosevelt. Some historians have argued that this is largely what helped shape American policy in the third world during the Cold War--supporting populist leaders with aid to block Soviet chances of intervention and influence in various regions.

Of course, Presidents Dewey and Stevenson continued these policies, most notably with aid to leaders like former Prime Minister Fidel Castro in Cuba, which leads me to ask: what if Truman, the initial supporter of aid to the third world, had declined aid to Ho Chih Minh after World War II? IIRC, Minh had some communistic leanings, which, should they have been more profound, might have been enough to deny this sort of aid by Truman.

If the aid is denied, then what does American foreign policy look like during the Cold War, should it set a precedent?
 
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