Abstract
The Geneva Agreements (July 1954) which terminated hostilities in Viet Nam provided that "persons on either side of the dividing line at the 17th parallel of latitude, would be free to move to places of their own choice". Hundreds of thousands of North Vietnamese, mostly Catholics, were clamouring to leave the North soon to be under Communist rule to South Vietnam in 1954 and 1955. Anxious to solve the "Catholic question", the Lao Dong Party asked Polish comrades for advice. Indeed, because of the importance of the Catholic Church in Poland, they were the best qualified among the fraternal countries to help them to manage the Catholic integration in a socialist country. Based on Polish Foreign Affairs Archives and on International Commission of Control Archives (with Canadians and Indians, Poles were called on to supervise the application of the Geneva Agreements), this paper intends to show the Polish view on the Catholic Question in North Viet Nam in the first years of the partition. It proposes to examine to what extent the Poles influenced the Lao Dong Party on Church-state relations question and to what extent the DRV diverged from Chinese policy towards the Catholic Church.
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