Word: indo-china
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While the western end of the Axis was crimping another little country last week (see p. 23), the eastern end did all right too. The war between Thailand and French Indo-China ended exactly where it began, in Tokyo. After three weeks of Japanese mediation, five days before the armistice was due to end, the Vichy Government announced it was prepared to make "large" territorial concessions. Said a Vichy spokesman: "We yielded to Japan, not Thailand...
Probably because it could not do otherwise, perhaps on orders relayed from Berlin to Paris to Vichy, Marshal Pétain's Government bowed to the Japanese dictate in French Indo-China. At Gannat near Vichy a military court passed its first sentences on Army and Navy officers accused of helping "Free French" General Charles de Gaulle. Four of them were sentenced to ten to 20 years at hard labor for spreading De Gaulle propaganda in the armed forces...
...Communist Leaders Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh to end the "undiscipline" of Communist Army units and join the Government in a fresh attack on Japan. In Vichy the French Government announced that it would reject Japan's terms for ending the Thailand-Indo-China war, that French Indo-China would resume fighting rather than give Thailand 50,000 square miles of territory which Japan would presumably occupy. To keep from losing more face the Japanese mediators persuaded the belligerents to extend the armistice...
...Foreign Office to demand of Foreign Minister Matsuoka what he meant by letting down Japan's Axis partner while that partner was trying to promote a Russo-Japanese non-aggression pact. Yosuke Matsuoka mumbled an "explanation to the press." He had referred to the Thailand-French Indo-China dispute, which Japan was already mediating. "Of course," added the flustered Foreign Minister, "Japan would be happy to mediate any dispute if the opportunity presented itself, but the entertainment of such a peaceful desire was something different from making a specific offer to mediate the European...
...from building to building by an instinct developed through long practice, not to mention an aptitude inherited from Cambridge ancestors plus a trace of Indian blood. But modern steam-heated life has dulled the senses; scholars today come not only from Cambridge and vicinity but also from Nebraska and Indo-China. Strangely enough, it is difficult for a Middle Westerner gazing with deep foreboding at the ghastly gray pile before him to know with a sudden, inner conviction that Matthews is Matthews...