Word: indo-china
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...Netherlands East Indies. The islands had new cause to be wary. Another Japanese negotiator was on his way to Batavia ostensibly to talk oil-but the Dutch knew that selling oil to Japan might be a very minor part of the conversations. They recalled what happened to French Indo-China...
Until last week Japanese-Dutch negotiations on the Indies were as different from Japanese-French "negotiations" on Indo-China as black and white. The Japanese just walked into Indo-China in the face of French blustering. In The Netherlands Indies they got nowhere in the face of determined Dutch geniality...
Gift and exchange collections were received of plants from Newfoundland, Palestine, Brazil, Ontario and Quebee, Mexico, Indo-China, and many of the United States...
...French Indo-China Japan was reported to have served up a fresh set of demands, including control of Saïgon, further bases in the Gulf of Tongkin and along the South China Sea coast, Indo-China's entire exportable surplus of rubber, tin, rice, lead, zinc and tungsten. These would give Japan a new source of supplies with which to resist a blockade, would put her in a position to harass the British at Singapore and the U. S. at Manila...
With Japan's tacit acquiescence Thailand began whittling at French Indo-China from another direction. On the lame charge that French bombing planes had tried to raid Siamese towns, Thailand warned all French residents to leave the Cambodian border area, started a series of air raids against Cambodia, occupied three border districts. Nationalist organizations, clamoring for the return of Thailand's lost province, hailed "the beginning...