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Brusquely they issued an ultimatum demanding air and naval stations in French Indo-China and the right to transport more troops across the peninsula for a backdoor attack on China. There were rumors that they wanted to subdivide the country into a northern, Japanese-controlled state, a central buffer, and a southern, French-controlled section...
...Army and the National Guard should be prepared to sustain friendly regimes in Latin America (Brazil, Uruguay, Ecuador), possibly "within a month or two." Discussed was a plan to set up a great Latin-American trade corporation, to be financed by the U. S. and to act as a buffer between a German-Italian Europe and the Americas...
...almost everybody (doctors estimate 99%) has a venereal disease. What modern improvements Lhasa has are the work of the Chinese and British. Tibet is not only a back door to China, but its religion is observed by 2,000,000 Mongols whom China very much wants to keep as buffering friends. Likewise Tibet is for England a buffer between the U. S. S. R. and India...
Cawley felt that the real reason for Russia's attempt to conquer Finland was that this little country would make a very valuable buffer state against the growing power of Germany. But if Russia moves on and attacks the Aaland Islands it would then seem evident that Sweden and Norway were Russia's real goal...
...Poles who now live in the annexed provinces will also be stuffed into the buffer...