Word: indo-china
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When President Roosevelt cracked down on the Japanese move into Indo-China by freezing credits, he moved far. The whole U.S. accepted his act as a step just short of war. But the U.S. reaction was quiet, solid agreement, in which even most isolationists joined. His second dramatic move, folding the Philippine defense forces into the U.S. Army (see p. 30), left no doubt of how much further he was ready to go. The two acts were more than a warning to the Japanese of war to come-they amounted to a declaration of economic war with military...
...place called the Pacific Ocean-one of the largest areas of the earth. . . . There happened to be a place in the South Pacific where we had to get a lot of things-rubber, tin, and so forth and so on, down in the Dutch Indies, the Straits Settlements and Indo-China. And we had to get the Australian surplus of meat and wheat and corn for England...
From London came the report that Adolf Hitler had called on Japan to attack Russia from the rear. It smelled of propaganda. From French Indo-China came a report that Japan had served up a new set of demands. It was promptly denied...
Nevertheless Admiral Jean Decoux, Governor General of French Indo-China, rushed back to Hanoï from his summer capital near Saigon. An attack on French Indo-China would be a fairly safe bit of summer gardening for Japan: it would not immediately threaten either Britain or the U.S., but would bring Japan closer to The Netherlands East Indies and vital Singapore...
...south. The press started a campaign designed to show that Great Britain, the U.S. and Chungking were plotting the "encirclement" of Japan. There were hints that Thailand, which had a mild domestic crisis last week, might need Japanese "protection." Pointing straight at the easiest mark, Domei accused French Indo-China of persecuting pro-Japanese Annamites, of maintaining "close economic, military and political relations with Great Britain and the United States." Domei called for "counter-measures." The Japan Times and Advertiser, Foreign Office mouthpiece, said flatly: "If the alarming picture of anti-Japanese operations in Indo-China and neighboring States...