Word: indo-china
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Such a policy would allow Japan to pull many troops out of China altogether and push them toward the coveted Indies. Ja pan's southward push continued hard on the economic front, with the signing in Tokyo of a trade treaty with French Indo-China. It clearly suggested Japan's idea of a New Order in Asia...
...most-favored-nation basis, the treaty called for reciprocal tariff reductions and shipping concessions. It gave Japan the right to join Indo-China in exploiting her undeveloped resources (formerly a French monopoly), provided for the building of Japanese schools in Indo-China...
...East. "The whole Dutch East Indies might be detached from Holland and placed under its own , independent system of government, in which native peoples would have equal representation. . . . French Indo-China also would be offered independence. . . . India's future would be for self-government...
Since the Emperor Napoleon III pacified Cambodia in 1863, inhabitants of that teeming, steaming puppet State in southern French Indo-China have flourished and multiplied under but three kings. Sisowath I, the second of these, died ripely at the age of 87, survived by 800 widows. Stout, chatty Sisowath II, who followed him, made the good-humored best of a job in which the emoluments were determined largely by the necessities of Finance Ministers in Paris...
...Japan's move-of-the-week, landing eight Army columns along a 250-mile strip of South China coast between Hong Kong and the Indo-China border. It was intended: 1) to menace one of free China's best supply lines; 2) to help isolate British Hong Kong; 3) to strengthen the position of the large Japanese garrison on Hainan Island just off the coast; 4) to make a nasty threatening face at Indo-China just across the Gulf of Tonkin...