Even in domestic political terms, there were questions. It was not yet certain that Ho and his colleagues would be able to fully harness the seething anti-French opinion prevalent among large majorities of Vietnamese and turn it into deep and lasting support for the DRV. The embryonic state launched in 1945 remained in many respects just that: embryonic. How to create a state apparatus that would enable the center to direct and coordinate regional affairs remained, in many ways, a problem to be solved.
