US supports Vietnamese Independence.

I'm not sure if Ho Chi Minh ever met Wilson personally. I was under the impression he was dismissed by an aide or something.
 
I'm not sure if Ho Chi Minh ever met Wilson personally. I was under the impression he was dismissed by an aide or something.

Or that he was a waiter... either way... not in the best of positions, and still there's the whole thing of Britain and France are looking to plunder their enemies not lose anything.
 
he was dismissed. He received a polite letter from an aide telling him that Wilson would "look into it".

Wilson was a southerner, Was racist, and therefore was guaranteed to ignore Vietnamese people's demands. Ho was a retouches of photographs and sold fake Chinese antiques to eke out a living in Francs. He was far from the great revolutionary he would later become.
 
he was dismissed. He received a polite letter from an aide telling him that Wilson would "look into it".

Wilson was a southerner, Was racist, and therefore was guaranteed to ignore Vietnamese people's demands. Ho was a retouches of photographs and sold fake Chinese antiques to eke out a living in Francs. He was far from the great revolutionary he would later become.

See I'm not trying to challenge the racism thing per se, I'm just challenging the whole plausibility thing, Wilson DID let down the Catholic Irish who also had had high hopes for getting a supportive US president on their side but that ultimately fell apart during the ToV, why? Because the Allies weren't going to give up their own territories in moments of victory, they were perfectly fine dismantling the empires of their defeated enemies and even accepting LoN mandates later on but you're just not going to get them to give up much of anything after the debacle of the war.
 
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