Word: indo-china
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When Menzies returned to the opening session of the Australian Parliament in May he raised not a ripple of applause, went to his seat under the silent stares of the House. As Japan moved into Indo-China, the Cabinet decided that it was imperative that some member of the Cabinet serve as a liaison man with London, declared that Menzies was the obvious man for the job. He thought so too. Firmly John Curtin replied for the opposition that in time of crisis the Prime Minister was urgently needed at home...
...five long years Japanese military factions, seeking to emulate the style of Hitler and Mussolini . . . have been wandering about that vast land [China] in futile excursions, carrying with them carnage, ruin and corruption, and calling it 'the Chinese incident.' Now, they stretch a grasping hand into the southern seas of China. They snatch Indo-China from the wretched Vichy French. They menace . . . Siam . . . Singapore . . . and the Philippine Islands...
While Japanese soldiers in French Indo-China made ugly faces across the border at Thailand, the U.S. decided that Bangkok was no place for a noncareer diplomat, hastily picked one of the ablest (and homeliest) career men in its Far Eastern diplomatic service to replace the Alabama politico who has been U.S. Minister there since...
...capacity, with efficient operation, is practically unlimited. It is possible that in the future Burma Road traffic will be limited only by the capacity of the port of Rangoon." To Generalissimo Chiang these were heartening words. Cut off by the Japanese from her seacoast and from rail communications in Indo-China, Free China today finds herself as wholly dependent for materiel upon the Burma Road as is Britain upon the North Atlantic. And even had the burly Chinese truckers, who battle dust, rain, malarial mosquitoes, hangovers and enemy bombers on the ten-day grind to Kunming, managed to transport...
Things were even tenser by week's end. Some hundred U.S. citizens in Japan were refused permission by Japanese authorities to go home. Large numbers of Japanese civilians left China, the Philippines, Australia, Singapore. In Indo-China, where there are reported to be up to 100,000 Japanese troops, bubonic plague had broken out. Large Japanese troop concentrations were being made on Manchukuo's Russian border. Japanese Minister to Washington Kaname Wakasugi had telephoned an interview from Los Angeles to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi, explaining to his countrymen that the U.S. meant business, warned them...