Word: indo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kurusu: No, nothing of particular interest except that it is quite clear now that that southward-ah-the south, the south matter is having considerable effect. [This was a reference to Jap troops in French Indo-China...
...supervise, and the international police enforce, free international exchange of scientific information and inspection. ¶The trusteeship provisions be rewritten to place under UNO's administration "such trouble spots of the world as Java, Indo-China, Korea, Trieste, Palestine, and perhaps even Austria and Bulgaria...
Like the Dutch in Indonesia (see above), the French were finding it far from easy to regain their grip on Indo-China. Here too the U.S. played an indirect somewhat reluctant role: the French were using Lend-Lease equipment against the natives...
...orders and according to plan. The British went to Java to take the surrender of the Jap forces and protect Allied (i.e., Dutch) lives and property. In doing so they found themselves fighting Indonesian Nationalists who are not Allies and are against the Dutch. Chinese troops moved into Indo-China - but only into the area which was part of the China theater - and found themselves supporting the French restoration. U.S. airmen, marines and naval forces transported and supported their Allies, the Chinese Nationalists, only in areas where there were Japs to be surrendered and disarmed. (At the important port...
...French achieved a nervous truce, but no agreement, last week with rebellious Annamites at Saïgon. Much to the relief of colonials, a respectable show of French force was possible: the battleships Richelieu and Triomphant had arrived. But in northern Indo-China, liberated and still occupied by the Chinese, native Viet Nam leaders crowed that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had personally promised them support...