‘Once awake everyone starts louse-hunting. At eight the gong sounds for the morning meal. Come on, let’s go and our stomachs try to fill: After such long misery Happier Days must be coming.’ This is just one of many poems written by the great Vietnamese revolutionary and politician Ho Chi Minh - born 130 years ago today - while incarcerated by the Chinese for a year or so in the early 1940s. The