While the army and navy of the United states are in Russia “making the world safe for democracy,” Nguyen Tat Thanh delivers a letter to Robert Lansing, Esq., de facto secretary of state, requesting that the “Fourteen Points” policy of Democratic (socialist/fascist) de facto President Wilson (having received an unlawful advantage of 50 ineligible Electoral votes) that “nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development,” be extended to the peoples of the French enclave of Indochina: “All subject peoples are filled with hope by the prospect that an era of right and justice is opening to them … in the struggle of civilization against barbarism”—based on the president’s Fourteen Points: 

• General amnesty for all Vietnamese political prisoners; 
• Equal rights for Vietnamese and French in Indochina, suppression of the Criminal Commissions, which are instruments of terrorism, aimed at Vietnamese patriots;
• Freedom of press and opinion;
• Freedom of association and assembly;
• Freedom to travel at home and abroad;
• Freedom to study and the opening of technical and professional schools for natives of the colonies;
• Substitute rule of law for government by decree;
• Appointment of a Vietnamese delegation alongside that of the French government to settle questions relating to Vietnamese interests;

       NOTES:

• It is important to point out here that at this point Nguyen was not asking for independence for Vietnam, only that its body of law originate with the National Assembly, of France, and not a colonial dictator appointed by the President of France.  This is in contrast to the “Founding Father’s” original position, which rejected rule by Parliament, and instead insisted on rule by their own colonial parliaments.  Nor did Nguyen ask for many “positive” rights (those requiring government action that compel others to provide financial support for them, i.e. Marxist in nature), besides number (education); Nguyen’s main thrust was for “negative” rights (those requiring the government to leave people alone, i.e. Jeffersonian in nature).
• As an attorney (Officer of the Court) Lansing was ineligible to serve in two branches of government at the same time, according to Article I, Section 6 [Clause 2].

       Postscript: Wilson refused to meet with Nguyen. Nguyen became disillusioned with Wilson’s hypocrisy, and changed his named to Nguyen Ai Quoc (Vietnamese for “Nguyen the Patriot”), and eventually to Ho Chi Minh.  The next year he joined the Communist Party of France, and began regularly attending Cominterns (conferences of the Communist International) in Moscow.

       [restored 6/19/2022]