Word: hanoi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deputy leader of the Party, Wang Ching-wei followed the Government on its trek from Nanking to Hankow to Chungking. But last winter he took his sons out of school, sent them out of the country, packed up his own belongings and one night left Chungking secretly for Hanoi, French Indo-China, and Hong Kong. The old Oriental instincts for compromise had got the better of him, and he declared himself for "peace" with Japan. Chiang Kai-shek read him out of the Party, arrested his followers...
Fortnight ago former Premier Wang Ching-wei, prominent Nationalist Party leader and member of China's United Resistance Front, suddenly flew from Chungking, the temporary capital, to Hanoi, capital of French Indo-China. From there, it was reported last week, he sent a telegram to Generalissimo Chiang declaring that Japanese "proposals" of late December (which, if accepted, would have made China a Japanese puppet state) constituted a "fair" basis for peace discussion...
...formed last week between Germany's Lufthansa and Air France. These two national airlines agreed to cooperate in test flights across the Atlantic, share each other's bases at each end. The agreement gives Germany rights at Dakar, Senegal, for South Atlantic flights, and at Hanoi. French Indo-China, for Far Eastern flying. France won the right to use Germany's catapult ships in the Atlantic. Co-operation was necessary because France lacks planes, Germany lacks capital, and both lack rights to land in the Azores, Bermuda, Canada...
Buddhist who needs Buddhist sons for heirs to his throne. Last week Marie Nguyen Hu Hao appealed to Archbishop Dreyer, Apostolic Delegate to Indo-China at Hanoi. Would His Grace ask the Pope for a special dispensation? She offered the Church the female issue of her mixed marriage. Would that be enough? She hoped, in all piety and humility, for a speedy reply, for the Emperor had fixed his wedding for March...
Indo-China. I reached Saigon on the 13th day of the month and Hanoi on the 13th of the following month. And certainly no unlucky happening followed either of those two thirteens...