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9 - The Privy Council Verdict, Release and Afterlife

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2021

Geoffrey C. Gunn
Geoffrey C. Gunn
Affiliation:
Nagasaki University
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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.

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Privy CouncilLondonSir Stafford CrippsD. M. PrittKCOut-of Court SettlementSingaporeExpulsionGovernor PeelShanghai“Death”Deportation Ordinance Revision
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Ho Chi Minh in Hong Kong
Anti-Colonial Networks, Extradition and the Rule of Law
 , pp. 206 - 225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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