Ho Chi Minh was in Paris at the time of the Paris Peace Conference after WWI but couldn’t get a hearing for self-determination for the Vietnamese. Woodrow Wilson was a champion of self-determination for Europeans (except those oppressed by the victorious allies), but not for non-Europeans. France and Britain were in no mood to give up any of their colonies.
Again, it’s why I say France was responsible for all the bad things that happened during the 20th Century. The Vietnam War was one of them.
” France and Britain were in no mood to give up any of their colonies.”
But they never stop talking about slavery in America.
Nor were they after WWII.