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Silk-robed mandarins with ornate shoes turned up at the toes hailed the bland, plump youth as Emperor of Annam, the "Absolute Master and Father and Mother." In the mountain of royal baggage, unseen by Annamites, were 7,000 phonograph records, a French-English-Italian library, ten ping-pong sets and a hundred dozen ping-pong balls. Not for nothing has 19-year-old Emperor Bao Dai spent half his life in Paris, coached by Frenchmen to rule Annam as France directs. On his return to Hue the perfectly drilled Emperor replied in rapid, flawless French to greetings voiced...
...Annam, the only empire in French Asia, lies facing the China Sea between the French protectorates of Cochin China and Tonking. With an area as large as Kentucky's and a population twice as great, Annam exports prime rice & pepper, fair tea, trinkets. Beyond a doubt her young Emperor would have preferred to remain in Paris and he almost had a chance to stay on. The August Messenger from the Regent of Annam who set out last spring to recall His Majesty traveled by the brand new French luxury liner Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank...
Tongking and Annam are ruled today as they were 400 years ago, by pale, effete coral-and-jade buttoned mandarins, kept in power by French rifles. After the War thousands of native Tongkingese troops went back to their country with new ideas of democracy. Republican and Communist ideas have seeped south from China proper. Rebellion began against the autocratic power of the mandarins some years ago, became a rebellion against France. First shots were fired more than two years ago when an Annamite garrison at Yen Bay on the China frontier mutinied and killed their French officers. Since then secret...
Thus far the chief uprisings have been among Indo-China's Annamites, a fighting people gifted with both intelligence and guile. Near Vinh, the provincial capital of North Annam, some 5,000 Annamites gathered not long ago and began the march upon the capital. Bombing planes were sent out against them. Two hundred natives were slain. The slaughter was comparable in every way to the notorious British massacre of Indians at Amritsar in 1919-for it turned out that the 5,000 Annamites were, in this particular instance, unarmed, had only been making a march of protest...
...Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the Governor of Porto Rico, received from King Bao-Dai of Annam. (French Indo-China) a gaudy bauble, the Order of Virtuous Wives...