Nguyễn Phan Long (1888 – 16 July 1960) served as Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam in January 1950. He was dismissed in May 1950 by the Emperor Bảo Đại under pressure from the French colonial authorities, who resented his pro-American and nationalist attitude. Journalist at ''La Tribune Indigène'', he founded in 1920 the liberal newspaper ''L'Écho Annamite'', in which wrote e.g. the (Eurasian) Vietnamese nationalist

Eugène Dejean de la Bâtie Eugène Dejean de la Bâtie was a major figure of the Indochinese journalism during the period between the two World Wars. In the beginning of the 1920s, gifted with a rare skill in polemics, he was with Nguyễn Phan Long, one of the best represen ...

, friend of

André Malraux Georges André Malraux ( , ; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs. Malraux's novel ''La Condition Humaine'' (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by P ...

. He was in the 1920s-1930s the deputy leader of the Parti Constitutionnaliste Indochinois, a nationalist party founded in 1923 and led by

Bui Quang Chiêu Bui may refer to: *Bui (Cameroon department), an administrative subdivision *Bùi Bùi (Chữ Hán: 裴) is a common Vietnamese surname, ranked 9th among the most common surnames in Vietnam. The surname Pei (裴) in Chinese and Bae (배) in Kor ...

. He was elected as colonial councillor. He wrote abundantly about spiritism in his newspaper and was also a fervent adept of

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. He was elected in 1936 as president of the ''Congrès Universel des Sectes Caodaïques'', an attempted unified caodai movement, which eventually failed. Gustave Meillon
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/ref> After 1945, he was Minister of Foreign Affairs and Minister of Interior as well as editor of ''L'Écho du Vietnam''.

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see also: *R. B. Smith, "Bui Quang Chiêu and the Constitutionalist Party in French Cochinchina, 1917–30", ''

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'' (1969), 3:131-150 Cambridge University Press *Micheline R. Lessard, "Organisons-nous! Racial Antagonism and Vietnamese Economic Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century", ''

French Colonial History French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to France ** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents ** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...

'' – Volume 8, 2007, pp. 171–201 *Christopher E. Goscha, "Widening the Colonial Encounter: Asian Connections Inside French Indochina During the Interwar Period", ''

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