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Tokyo censors passed cables in which foreign correspondents guessed this meant the Japanese Navy will proceed to take Chinese Hainan Island adjacent to French Indo-China. Hainan lies uncomfortably close to the French naval base at Saigon and commands the route between British Hong Kong and British Singapore. Hainan in Japanese hands would be the sort of pistol Hitler pointed when he mobilized 1,500,000 Germans to solve the Sudeten problem without...
Foul & Foul? Premier Daladier had not replied this week to Premier Konoye's hint that Indo-China must adopt a "Closed Door" policy on munitions. But the Japanese Government were revealed to have received, on October 6, a note from Washington presented by Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, repeating previous U. S. demands that Japan return to an "Open Door" trade policy for China...
...graduated from the famed Lycée Condorcet, which schooled Proust, then studied Sanskrit at the Paris School of Oriental Languages. He had published a thin book of prose poems, married Clara Goldschmidt, the daughter of a well-to-do German Jewish family, when at 22 he sailed for Indo-China on an archeological expedition...
Among archeologists, Indo-China is famous for its immense, moldering, bat-infested ruins of Khmer civilization, of which Angkor Wat is the best known. Among economists, Indo-China is equally famous as one of the world's worst-run colonies. For a year young Malraux dug through ruins, crawled over fallen temples which reeked with the decayed jungle vegetation of eight centuries, collected Khmer statuary, then abruptly lost interest in Indo-China's past, became interested in Indo-China's present. Working with a group known as the Young Annam League, which fought for dominion status...
...with Khmer statuary, Oriental books and hand-painted Persian linen panels on the walls - Malraux remained as secretive in Paris as he had been in Saïgon, met Indo-Chinese conspirators, Chinese revolutionists in his office, had so few contacts with the French literary world that even his closest friends did not know where he lived. The Conquerors was followed by a mediocre adventure story laid in Indo-China, The Royal Way. In 1933 his wife, who translates books from German into French, bore him a daughter, Florence. When Man's Fate won the Goncourt Prize the same...