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Re: Ba?o DDa.i not as a





 Hi anh AiViet et al.:
 I think: maybe "King" Bao Dai did think for his country too. 
Unfortunately, the time and priority for him to think and work for his 
country was too limit and too low priority. This is different!!!!!!!!!
 THat's all folks
 DQ
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>Hello,
>
>   Don't compare my beloved hero with the playboy king, please.
>First, Bao Dai never proved by any action that he was Anh Hung. Dda(.ng 
Dung
>did. He never tried to sacrify his pleasures to fulfill his duty as a 
King.
>   "Le Dragon d'Annam" ( not the vietnamese Dragon, as Bao Dda.i ruled 
>only Middle Vietnam = Annam) can not serve as an evidence od his 
patriotism.
>Ba?o Dda.i is world famous in the bridge game.
>  Maybe he wanted to be a patriot however he did not have time. Too 
much 
>time was spent on hunting, casino, wooing, tennis.
>   Actually, Ba?o DDa.i was in position to be a great King. A lot of 
>opportunity was lost by his ignorance. He could have saved our country 
from
>wars, quarrels if he had had spent only haft that much time of what he 
did
>on tennising.
>
>Cheers
>Aiviet
>
>
>It painted Bao Dai
>as a patriotic king who; due to the circumstances such as the French
>occupation of VN, WW2, Japanese occupation, the rise to power of VCP, 
etc.;
>could not do much to help VN.  In summary, the book tried to justify 
Bao
>Dai's action using the commonly VN reasoning expressed by the poem of 
Dda.ng
>Dung:
>     "Tho+`i lai ddo^` ddie^'u tha`nh co^ng di.
>       Va^.n bi' anh hu`ng a^?m ha^.n dda"  
>


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