Allied Chief of Staff organization

“also cast for the future of post-surrender Indochina by the terms of the Potsdam Conference, where it was decided to temporarily partition Vietnam and Laos at the 16th parallel. Under this agreement, the Allied chief of staff assigned Briti…”

“And do you know who that Chinese forces was? Not Mao's forces, Chiang Kai-shek. So Ho Chi Minh, the northern area, was turned over basically for administrative purposes to the drug king, Chiang Kai-shek. I was like, what the hell? And that …”