native guerrilla groups had begun operations late in 1944 in the remotest areas of North Viet-Nam and in the neighboring Chinese provinces of Yunnan and Kwang-Si. They were led by two able Communist leaders, Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap. Ho, under various aliases, had been a Communist since 1920; and Giap, the military "brains" of the group, also had been a Communist since the earliest beginnings of the movement in Indochina.
