Word: indo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Charles de Gaulle looked at the bright new posters and found them good. They pictured Indo-China's blue skies, palm trees and temples as a backdrop for French tanks and jungle troops. Their slogan: "Yesterday Strasbourg, tomorrow Saigon! Join the French Expeditionary Forces of the Extreme Orient...
...Ministers decided to build "a large land, air and naval base" on Africa's Atlantic bulge, at Dakar, which Franklin Roosevelt more than once implied was a U.S. strategic outpost. A few days later the General dropped in at the Institut Géographique, where French Indo-Chinese were celebrating their New Year...
Stiffly Charles de Gaulle accepted an armful of flowers from a creamy Annamese girl. Stiffly he spoke: "Chère Indochine . . . noble, loyal and intelligent Annamese people. . . . France wants to make the political, economic, social and cultural development of the Indo-Chinese union one of the principal aims of her . . . reborn power and greatness." In effect, the General told the Big Three that the Big Fourth reserved all rights in the Far Eastern colony seized by the Japs before Pearl Harbor. Indo-China-bigger than France, with a population of 23,000,000, rich in rice, rubber, tin and zinc...
...Gaulle's principal envoys (see cut) have one outstanding characteristic in common: their conservatism. Catroux is a professional soldier and empire administrator (Syria, Indo-China). Significantly, he is well-equipped to look after French affairs in the explosive Middle East, where Russia also has a spreading interest. His conservatism suits Joseph Stalin, who would much rather deal with able rightists than with middling leftists. Other ambassadors who reflect De Gaulle policy...
...Japs were as badly off. Since the landings in Lingayen Gulf began, not one of their surface ships had appeared to dispute Allied control of the sea lanes. Instead, their own cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping...