Word: indo-china
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...token French force accompanied the British, the Chinese had agreed to let 5,000 French soldiers enter with their occupation army, and 2,200 more French troops were on their way from Marseille. Whether they would be enough to cope with explosive Indo-China was doubtful, unless British and Chinese aid was substantial and prolonged. A Hanoi broadcast said that Indo-Chinese nationalists had proclaimed a republic...
Although the United Nations were helping return Indo-China to France, Paris had long realized that some compromises would be necessary. There was talk of a semi-autonomous Indo-Chinese Federation in a new French Federal Union. Said a spokesman for the Ministry of Colonies in Paris last week: "We would do well to eliminate from our vocabulary such phrases as 'our beautiful colony' and 'our Far Eastern possessions...
...Indo-China the Japanese were ready to quit, but the French expected trouble from Japanese-incited natives. The British, with negotiations completed for the surrender of Singapore's city and fortress, feared the same sort of difficulty...
Questions. This left most of the urgent Franco-American questions unanswered-at least publicly. What of German occupation, in which France wants a greater share? What of U.S. bases on French islands in the Pacific? What of French return to Indo-China? Presumably, most of the questions would not be answered until they had been dealt with at the forthcoming Council of Foreign Ministers. Meanwhile had the General made a good friend out of the President? Official Washington agreed that he had certainly tried...
...days later the Japanese Commander in Chief in China, Lieut. General Yasuji Okamura, agreed to surrender all his sea, air and ground forces, from Manchuria's southern border to Formosa and northern Indo-China. Next day, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government troops entered Nanking. They were back in China's capital just seven years, nine months and five days since they had been forced to leave the city to a brutal fate that shook the world...