Word: indo-china
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King Sisowath Monivong, 59-year-old ruler of the ancient protectorate of Cambodia in French Indo-China, dismissed approximately 100 of his 200 wives. Reason: economy. The dismissed ladies will keep themselves occupied with classical dancing, for which they are famed...
Paul Reynaud is often called "The Most Traveled French Statesman." He makes frequent trips to Mexico to look after property he inherited from his grandfather. Before he took up politics he practiced law. In Indo-China, where Communists have had notable success in fomenting native unrest, M. Reynaud helped restore order when he was Minister of the Colonies (TIME, Nov. 2, 1931). Aged 58, he looks younger, annoys the earnest Left with his barbed Gallic wit, his habitually ironic mien. The Moderate Left acknowledged him the leading exponent of the moderate Right. Excepting Bonnet, no Premier cared to form...
Tokyo cowed Paris? The supplies of munitions moving across French Indo-China into Central China and thence to Generalissimo Chiang were halted on orders from Paris last week. Rumors that Japan had threatened to seize the Chinese island of Hainan and use it as a base to bomb the French-owned Indo-Chinese Yunnan Railway if the supplies were not cut off, were officially denied by the French and Japanese Governments-but within 24 hours President Henry Berenger of the French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee blurted a sensational statement that these rumors were substantially correct. "I am not betraying," fibbed...
...mount the throne, he had shown as Crown Prince, partly by serving as an active member of the Belgian Senate and partly by preparing for his father a series of comparative reports on colonial administration in the Belgian Congo, British India, The Netherlands Indies, the Philippines and French Indo-China. It was not simply that Leopold and Astrid "inspected" or showed "interest" on their travels. The Crown Prince everywhere took copious notes of the replies made to his questions, collected and studied reports as he went along, and on returning to Brussels closeted himself for weeks, writing...
...including the Sahara Desert and French Somaliland as well as North Africa. After these war birds of Paris and the moderate Left have scared the Fascist daylights out of as much of French Africa as possible, the most potent bombers will fly on to impress Madagascar and finally French Indo-China...