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  • 9 - The Privy Council Verdict, Release and Afterlife

  • Geoffrey C. Gunn
  • Book:
    Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
    Published online:
    19 July 2021
    Print publication:
    29 July 2021, pp 206-225

  • Summary

    This chapter retraces the appeal made by Ho Chi Minh's legal team to the Privy Council in London in an attempt to cancel a Hong Kong Governor-in-Council order to return him to a French jurisdiction. Drawing upon British and French documentation, the chapter explains the out-of-court settlement in his favor but also intramural government maneuverings and even incompetence in the handling of his case: Ho Chi Minh's thwarted attempt to reach England, an aborted trip to Singapore and, with local Hong Kong legal assistance, his anticlimactic final departure from Hong Kong to Shanghai. A range of documentation is brought to bear upon, for example, faux reports of Ho Chi Minh's death, his journey to Moscow and communist recriminations over his Hong Kong interlude.