Nguyon Phan Long

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Nguyễn Phan Long (* 1889 , † July 16, 1960 in Saigon , Republic of Vietnam ) was a reformist Vietnamese politician in French Indochina . He acted as newspaper editor and together with Bùi Quang Chiêu as a prominent leader of the Indochinese Constitutionalist Party . After the Second World War , he served as Prime Minister of the pro-French client state Vietnam, but was deposed by the colonial authorities for attempting to pursue politics independently.

Origin and career

Nguyen Phan Long was born into a Saigon- based family of wealthy landowners. He completed his secondary school education at the Lycée Albert Sarraut in Hanoi and then took up a position as a high school teacher in Saigon. In 1889 he returned to his family's home region in South Vietnam. There he first took a position in the colonial administration until he finally decided on a career as a journalist.

Journalistic work

From 1917 he worked as a journalist for the La Tribune Indigène newspaper, founded under the aegis of Bui Quang Chieu . In 1920 he founded his own newspaper, L'Écho Annamite . He wrote on both spiritualism and the teachings of the Cao Dai movement.

Political activity

Nguyen Phan Long joined the constitutional party founded by Bui Quang Chieu. For this he temporarily took a seat in the colonial council of Cochinchina . In 1919 he acted together with Bui Qúang Chieu as leading figures in a boycott movement against the Chinese merchant class in South Vietnam. In 1925 he became well known with a list of petitions to Governor General Alexandre Varenne for more rights for the colonized population. In the thirties he distanced himself from his friend and mentor Bui Quang Chieu about the question of how much cooperation with the colonial state was allowed.

When the client state of Vietnam was founded under the leadership of Emperor Bao Dai , he was appointed Foreign Minister in 1949. In January 1950 he was appointed Prime Minister. Due to his attempt to get US economic aid without consulting the French authorities , he was dismissed under pressure from the French colonial authorities. His successor as Prime Minister was Trần Văn Hữu .

After the end of his political career, Nguyen Phan Long lived in modest circumstances and did both teaching and journalistic work. He died in his hometown in 1960.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Justin Corfield: Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City . London 2014, p. 202
  2. ↑ a b c Bruce L. Lockhart, William J. Duiker: Historical Dictionary of Vietnam . Oxford 2006, p. 273
  3. ^ KW Taylor: A History of the Vietnamese . Cambridge 2013, p. 497 f.
personal data
SURNAME Nguyon, Phan Long
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese politician and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1889
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1960
Place of death Saigon , Republic of Vietnam