Born in Phu Yen province, Truong Tu Anh became active in nationalist politics in the late 1920s and 1930s. He studied at the Faculté de droit at the Indochinese University in Hanoi. In 1938, he created the non-communist and fiercely anti-colonialist Greater Vietnam Nationalist Party (Dai Viet Quoc Dan Dang). In 1942, the French incarcerated him in Hoa Binh. The French were not the only problem, however. Truong Tu Anh was also strongly opposed to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which he considered to be dominated by the Indochinese Communist Party. Vietnamese communists suspected him of being behind an attempt to provoke the French into attacking the Viet Minh on 14 July 1946, during French national day celebrations. Truong Tu Anh disappeared during the outbreak of full-scale war in Vietnam on 19 December 1946 in unclear circumstances. See also CIVIL WAR; POULO CONDOR.