Word: revolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with the prospect of double invasion in addition to internal revolt, Vichy's unhappy emissary pleaded for time to communicate with his Government. The French Colonial Government canceled military leaves, closed the port of Haiphong, suspended railway traffic throughout the colony, manned coastal defenses, barricaded streets and squares in Haiphong, prepared to evacuate women and children from coastal towns. A Japanese fleet steamed outside Haiphong, and Japanese troops on the Japanese-occupied Chinese island of Hainan prepared for active duty. News from French IndoChina stopped, blocked by censorship...
Nervously Mexico watched this threatening dualism. Last July's farcical, bloody election had settled nothing. Dark overtones of gunfire continued. A dozen Mexicans had been wounded in shooting bouts on that day alone. Rumors of revolt sprang up everywhere. Quipped one cynic: "Well, at last Mexico has a two-party system...
...Egyptian Sudan and Italian Libya (area: 461,202 sq.mi.; population: 549 whites, 1,432,000 natives). Lake Chad, on its western frontier, is an important junction of caravan routes, and a well-equipped air field at its capital, Fort-Lamy, makes it a desirable prize. Leader of the Chad revolt was black Civil Governor Adolphe Felix Sylvestre Eboue, French-educated rugby player whose administrative ability so impressed his superiors that he landed the only French governorship held by a Negro. Having lined up a small garrison of colonial troops, Rebel Eboue proclaimed allegiance to General de Gaulle: "... The people...
...more up the slope of the abyss," he cried to the Empire. From Winston Churchill came a quick letter of assurance that French colonies who supported England's cause would receive the same trade and political concessions as British possessions. The Vichy Government denounced Britain for fostering the revolt, discharged Eboue from his governorship, declared wishfully that "all necessary dispositions have been taken to localize the situation...
Flood. Two days later the flood broke. First came word that the remaining provinces of humid, swampy Equatorial Africa (498,054 sq.mi.; 4,400 whites; 1,986,060 Arabs, Okande, Fiot, Fang, Bateke, Banda, Zandeh, Hausa, Fula and Pigmy tribesmen) had renounced Vichy. This revolt was engineered by General Rene Marie Edgard de Larminat, former Chief of Staff in the Syrian Army, who had escaped to Africa after being imprisoned for attempting to lead the staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents...