The Mặt trận Quốc gia Thống nhất (National Unified Front) was a Vietnamese political alliance in the short-lived

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. It was formed August 14–17, 1945 in Southern Vietnam uniting all non-

Viet Minh The Việt Minh (; abbreviated from , chữ Nôm and Hán tự: ; french: Ligue pour l'indépendance du Viêt Nam, ) was a national independence coalition formed at Pác Bó by Hồ Chí Minh on 19 May 1941. Also known as the Việt Minh Fro ...

factions, including

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s and the southern religious sects of Cao Đài and Hòa Hảo. Following the delayed arrival in

Saigon , population_density_km2 = 4,292 , population_density_metro_km2 = 697.2 , population_demonym = Saigonese , blank_name = GRP (Nominal) , blank_info = 2019 , blank1_name = – Total , blank1_ ...

on August 22, 1945, of the former president of the Journalists' Syndicate, and now Imperial Commissioner of Nam Bo Nguyen Van Sam, the alliance made an official declaration of national independence and territorial reunification. The Front initially had its own paramilitary unit, the Advanced Guard Youth, which was under the leader of Dr. Phạm Ngọc Thạch. However Thạch led the unit over to the

after the abdication of the Emperor Bảo Đại.Hoàng Văn Đào ''Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng: A Contemporary History of a National ...'' 2008 "The Advanced Guard Youth was under the leader of Dr. Phạm Ngọc Thạch. This organization adhered to the United National Front (Mặt Trận Quốc Gia Thống Nhất) at first, but when Thạch heard of the abdication of the Emperor Bảo Đại," The leading role of the Trotskyite faction was brief and became irrelevant as leaders such as Phan Văn Chánh (d.1945) and

Phan Văn Hùm Phan Văn Hùm (9 April 1902 – 1946) was a Vietnamese journalist, philosopher and revolutionary in French colonial Cochinchina who, from 1930, participated in the Trotskyist left opposition to the Communist Party of Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh). ...

(d.1946) were murdered or disappeared.

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