Word: indo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With China falling, Burma in chaos and Indo-China locked in civil war, the West might have been expected to rejoice at the Dutch victory. Instead, W. R. Hodgson, representing Australia at the United Nations, cried: "[This] is worse than what Hitler did to The Netherlands." This immoderate expression went further than the official stands of the Western powers. Nevertheless, adverse criticism of the Dutch move was widespread...
...calculated risk we had to take." The Dutch also knew that the risk was not too great; had not the British themselves sent several units of the Guards Brigade to Malaya to suppress a Communist rebellion? Were not the French and their Foreign Legion fighting a war in Indo-China...
...preview of what the Communists are trying to do in Southeast Asia is visible in French Indo-China, where Viet Nam's Communist President Ho Chi-minh's forces have been fighting the French for the past three years. In 1937 Indo-Chinese exports amounted to $101 million; last year they were $56 million, in inflated dollars. Actual export tonnage in fiscal 1948 was 400,000 as against 4,000,000 tons before the war-a 90% drop...
Most nearly reduced to the Indo-China level was Burma, in normal years the world's largest rice exporter. After Goshal's return from the Calcutta conference, a series of uprisings broke out which reached their peak just when Burmese peasants should have been out in the paddy fields gathering the new crop. Last week, as Burma's parties battled for power, and food prices in Rangoon soared, it was doubtful whether Burma this year could even feed herself...
...same time, they underestimated his capacity. Reports of large Japanese ship movements southward against Indo-China and Malaya convinced them that the Hawaiian Islands were safe for the time being. But they had many warnings to the contrary. Lay readers may be fascinated by such details as the CINCPAC intelligence officer's report of Dec. 1, in which it was noted that the call letters of four Japanese carriers had vanished from Japanese radio "traffic." The inference is that those carriers were at sea under radio silence, on their way to strike somewhere -as indeed they were...