Word: indo-china
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...London. In nearby French-owned New Caledonia, where Governor Marie-Marc-Georges Pélicier has offered his allegiance to the Pétain Government, the local assembly declared its intention of continuing the war under General de Gaulle. With the Japanese just over the horizon and already in Indo-China (see p. 35), the New Hebrides and New Caledonia wanted what protection there still was in being an ally of Great Britain...
When Georges Mandel became Minister of Colonies in April 1938, France was growing defense-conscious. To French Indo-China was allotted 440,000,000 francs for anti-aircraft guns, coastal batteries, improved harbors, other defenses. In order to make the colony self-sufficient in wartime. Minister Mandel pushed public works, expanded light industries, built up production of coal, tin, rubber, iron, rice...
These commodities happen to be the very ones which Japan needs most. When France fell, the Japanese swooped on Indo-China like buzzards on to fresh death. Pretending that they wanted only to defeat China, they asked for and obtained closure of the military-supply route into China. One of the clauses of the closure agreement was that Japanese officials would be permitted to examine Indo-Chinese traffic into free China to see that military stoppage was complete...
...wrong national idiom, "they will find it is their own necks they are stretching out." Two more Britons were arrested. Foreign Office Spokesman Yakichiro Suma rejected the British protest. The Cabinet issued its program, which revolved around a new but strangely reminiscent phrase: Greater East Asia (incorporating Indo-China, The Netherlands Indies, possibly Burma, in Japan's sphere of action). Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka warned: "The Japanese Government is through with toadying...
...thing which the embargo gave the U. S. for the first time-a bargaining advantage as visible as a point-blank muzzle. Finally, if the U. S. should choose that old Russian game, keeping the potential enemy fighting someone else, the embargo was equally useful. Closure of the Indo-China and Burma supply routes put an end to direct U. S. aid to China, which for three years had impaled 1,125,000 Japanese soldiers and most of the Imperial Fleet. Only other way to prolong the deadlock was to end direct aid to Japan...