2. That war resulted in untold loss of life and property for the peoples. French imperialism was the hardest hit. Therefore, in order to restore the forces of capitalism in Frence, the French imperialists have resorted to every perfidious scheme to intensity capitalist exploitation in Indochina. They have built new factories to exploit the workers by paying them starvation wages. They have plundered the peasant land to establish plantations and drive them to destitution. They have levied new heavy taxes. They have forced our people to buy government bonds. In short, they have driven our people to utter misery. They have increased their revolution; secondly to prepare for a new imperialist thirdly to suppress the Chinese revolution; and fourthly to attack the Soviet Union because she helps the oppressed nation and the exploited working class to wage revolution.