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Last week Ho Chi Minh, IndoChina's Red leader, in a roundabout reply to questions from Stockholm's liberal Expresses, announced scornfully that if France, "having learned the lessons of these years of war, wishes to have an armistice, [we] will be ready to meet the French proposal." The conditions? Said Ho: "The French government has to stop hostilities." In Paris, one Cabinet minister remarked that Ho's terms should not be considered, and was sharply rebuked by Premier Laniel's office. The proposal, said the chairman of the Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, should be studied seriously.