Word: indo-china
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...China, Korea, Formosa and French Indo-China, an estimated 33,200 Allied prisoners (including 3,530 U.S. citizens) awaited liberation. In Japan there were perhaps 30,000 more - Americans, British, Dutch. Planes and hospital ships were assigned to begin the recovery...
...personnel and signalmen. Each team was equipped with a radio and 500 Ibs. of concentrated foods and medicine. Included in most groups: at least one man who had worked as an Allied spy, maintained communication with U.S., British and Dutch prisoners in the Jap camps scattered from Manchuria to Indo-China...
...return, Moscow agreed to support Chinese claims to territories which "foreign countries have succeeded in tearing away from China." This probably meant British Hong Kong. British-influenced Tibet, and French Indo-China. Moscow proposed to assist China in economic reconstruction by sending technicians, supplying heavy-industry materials, rebuilding communications, and establishing airlines. Russia would have the right to use certain Chinese airfields...
...probing finger of Chinese columns, reaching to the Gulf of Tonkin, were 150,000 Japs in Indo-China and Thailand...
Since the liberation, French tennis stars of the gay, bygone days have been creeping back in the news. (Notable exception: flamboyant Jean Borotra, last reported under arrest as Vichy's ex-Sports Director.) This week Yvon Petra, a native of Indo-China, captured the French championship by defeating former Davis Cupper Bernard Destremeau, 7-5, 6-4, 6-2. Then dapper little Henri Cochet, 45-year-old ace of the '20s, paired with Pierre Pellizza to win the doubles crown from Petra and Destremeau...