Vietnamese Communist leader Ho Chi Minh at end of World War II. Crowds cheer as he boards DC-3 airplane for flight to France. In Paris, Ho Chi Minh is escorted by French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman. The Viet Minh flag flies near meeting place. French military officers arrive at meeting. French newspaper article reports that Ho Chi Minh is hosted by the French Government. Plaque on a building reads Congress II, in Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap speak in turn and are applauded. Hammer and sickle on banners with the single star. Speakers and audience give rousing cheers. Plaque on building reads National Viet Minh Convention, in Vietnamese. Ho Chi Minh mingles with enthusiastic Vietnamese people in rural area of the country.
Vietnamese people carrying objects on poles walk slowly along a pathway leading to a substantial house in walled compound with hills in background. A painted portrait of 19th Century Vietnamese nationalist, Phan Dinh Phung. Three Vietnamese men plowing rice paddy, manually with bamboo pole over shoulders of two who pull plow. Group of men pose for photograph wearing small ladder-like wooden collars over their heads. View of French Prison walls, and watch towers. Francois Pierre Rodier, French Governor-General of Cochinchina from 1902-1906. (World War II period).