Word: indoing
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...world's great rice exporters - Burma, Siam, Indo-China - have never recovered from their wartime agricultural breakdown. This crop-year they will be able to export less than one-third the normal prewar figure. No matter how well it is distributed, this food balance sheet adds up to acute shortage. Two countries, Argentina and the U.S., both more prosperous than they were before the war, might alleviate the crisis, Argentina by charging less, the U.S. by eating less...
There were a few other possibilities. The Army still owed France some $30 million. France had a claim on $37 million worth of Indo-Chinese gold captured by the Japanese. There was a chance that $115 million worth of German assets might be kept out of the Treasury for use abroad. All told, it was probably enough to keep Europe going on a hand-to-mouth basis until the first of the year...
...within two years, according to Soviet estimates. And once China was conquered, a compromise peace could be offered the U.S., based on a split of the world into two zones: Europe (except Britain), the Near and Middle East, North Africa and China to the Russians; the Indies, Indo-China, Indonesia, South America, Britain and her colonies and Japan under American influence...
...those brave days, Bao Dai (meaning: The Great Protection) was hereditary emperor of the Annamites in French Indo-China. But in August of 1945 he ran into a bird too big for him-Communist Ho Chih-minh. Elected President of the new Viet Nam Republic, Ho Chih-minh arranged for Bao Dai's prompt abdication, kept him prisoner for some months and then packed him off to China. Since then, the Great Protection has spent his time roaring about Hong Kong on a motorcycle and awaiting a "summons from the Annamite people...
...route-the North Atlantic-the American lines were still well in front. The Pacific Ocean was still an American lake. But over the land mass of Asia, the British, Dutch and French lines were pressing hard; Air France has just opened a new run to Hong Kong from French Indo-China; the British Overseas Airways Corp. has added a leg to Ceylon from Karachi...