New Excerpts from The Pol Pot Journals

This if from an upcoming book:

Chapter 4
Hồ Chí Minh and the Indochinese Communist Party





Journal Entry: 29 June: Sâr:

By now, the people of Indochina were beginning to rally around Hồ Chí Minh and his Indochinese Communist Party, which he founded in 1930. At first he attended the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference in an attempt to present US President Woodrow Wilson with a proposal to free Vietnam from colonialism. He was naturally turned away by a government that had just as many imperialist ambitions as the French. The proposal was never even acknowledged.
It’s not surprising that people rallied around Ho. All Indochinese hated the French. They held us hostage for years. We all wanted them out. No one really thought about the politics of Ho. We just wanted to help him drive out the French. Many of the Khmer Freedom Fighters joined up with Ho Chi Minh and his Indochinese Communist Party in Vietnam. I eventually joined him.
As with my comrades and I, he hd spent time in France, although it was much earlier, 1922. Ho was a founding member of the French Communist Party when it splits from the Socialist Party in 1920. He worked with other groups of radical expatriates and publishes an anti-colonial journal, 'Le Paria' ('The Pariah' or 'The Outcast').
Ho traveled to Moscow, in 1922, for the Fourth Congress of the Communist International. He joined the Comintern's Southeast Asia Bureau and helped to organize the Krestintern, or Peasant International. At that time, the communists were united. It wasn’t until much later that he stuck to the revisionist line of the Soviet Union. Ho did work with China and served as an adviser to the Chinese People’s Liberation Army during China’s fight with Japan during World War II.
Ho was born 19 May1890 in Kim Lien in Annam, central Vietnam. His father was a public servant to the imperial court. Ho received his basic education from his father and the local village school. He attended the prestigious National Academy School in Hue but didn’t graduate. He worked for a short time as a teacher in a South Annam before traveling to Saigon, where he trained as a kitchen boy and pastry cook's assistant. He really should have kept to doing pastries. I’m sure he was great at making the kings tarts, which is more than he ever did for true communist revolution. He had a Fu Manchu moustache, It’s too bad he wasn’t a fictional character as Fu Manchu was.
If he were smart he would have stayed a cook. But he screwed up and got involved in politics.