Word: annam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fall of the Bastille. This year the French Government is expected to outdo past performances in parading the power & splendor of French armed might on the Champs Elysées in Paris. Attending the celebrations will be Sultan Sidi Mohammed of French-protected Morocco, and Emperor Bao Dai of Annam, in Indo-China. Native troops from the French Empire will march alongside crack French regiments. Also in line will be a detachment from British Guards Regiments which have gone to France more than once in the past few centuries on less peaceful missions. Far more significant, zooming overhead will...
...year young Malraux dug through ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status for Indo-China, he was soon in trouble. He had collected Khmer statuary which the authorities insisted should be turned over to the Government. Malraux refused, lost a suit in the lower courts but won an appeal when it was learned that the documents...
...King Bao-Dai of Annam, one of the states which make up French Indo-China, assured France that he and his subjects had "profound attachment and indefectible devotion to the great protector nation...
Last week the French Foreign Office suddenly disclosed that a squad of Indo-China's Annamite police, commanded by French officers, had sailed across and occupied the islands for France. Ever since 1886, when France established a protectorate over the Indo-China Kingdom of Annam, France has claimed the Paracels because they formerly came under the sovereignty of Annam. Until last week, however, she made no move to occupy them...
Born. To Bao Dai, 23, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; and his Roman Catholic Empress Marie N'Guyen Houhao, 20; a son, their first; in Hue, Annam...