Word: indo-china
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...command and started a face-saving drive on Changsha. Their faces were slapped instead, in what Chungking called "the biggest single victory of the war." Desperate, the Japanese undertook a surprise attack, this time successful, on Nanning, in order to cut down on the flow of munitions from French Indo-China into China. This was a serious blow to the Chinese. The fall of Ichang early this month gave the Japanese a convenient base for new and heavier-than-ever bombing attacks on Chungking. But the biggest Japanese successes of 1939-40 were accomplished by the Germans in Poland, Norway...
...French Near East Army in Syria, Frenchmen in Indo-China, threatened by Japan (see p. 28}, in Shanghai, in Martinique and Guadeloupe in the West Indies, St. Pierre and Miquelon off Newfoundland, Chandernagor in India-large groups and tiny minorities alike-declared they would fight on beside Britain...
...Arsene-Henry's misfortunes began immediately after France's request for armistice. The Japanese Army spokesman in Canton said that if French Indo-China refused to "reconsider herself" on the matter of sending munitions by rail into China, the Imperial Army would "undertake to wean Indo-China away from hostility to Japan." M. Arsene-Henry, who understood the meaning of that "wean," who also well appreciates the classical Japanese conceptions of fact and fiction, flatly denied that any arms were going from French Indo-China into China (although two-thirds of China's war supplies have gone...
...Foreign Office soon handed gentle M. Arsene-Henry demands that French authorities: 1) give the Japanese a detailed inventory of gasoline, trucks, railway stocks in French Indo-China; 2) allow Japanese customs officers periodically to examine these stocks; 3) let Japanese troops supervise transportation across the border into China...
...Japanese militarists, occupation of French Indo-China was a delightful prospect. It would shorten both the long faces of discouraged civilians at home and the China campaign-by cutting Chiang Kai-shek's chief supply lines. If & when the U. S. Fleet were shifted from the Pacific to the Atlantic, Japan could begin her long-planned campaign to drive the white man from all Asia...