Word: indoing
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They began discussing the probable point of attack. Hopkins guessed Indo-China. Neither mentioned Pearl Harbor; neither discussed the time the war might begin...
...command performance honoring Admiral d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who with a single word had brought joy to Cambodia. Resplendent in purple wrap-around sam-pots, beribboned white tunics and black silk stockings, the bun-haired mandarins of Cambodia's court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return...
...plight of the quarter-million whites and Eurasians who had once ruled Java. Before the war they had attained a comfort of living probably unmatched elsewhere. Now their sprawling, marble-floored houses are occupied by British officers (in unreclaimed cities, by Indonesians). An estimated 200,000 Dutch and Indo-Europeans remain in Java, many of them still living in former Japanese "hell camps"; 17,000 evacuees are in crowded, poorly supplied camps in Singapore, 11,000 in Bangkok. Some 15,000 are hostages of the Indonesian rebels...
...French Embassy on Wingking Lane nervously heard that the demonstrators were on the way to demand the recall of the French consul general in Shanghai, because the French had shanghaied an alleged collaborator named Tosoli (wanted by the new all-Chinese Municipal Government) , and shipped him off to Indo-China. But Gallic jitters vanished when the Embassy learned that the students had already served protests elsewhere. "Ah," said a spokesman, "everybody is in trouble, out? That's much better...
Gloves Off? Back to their respective stations hurried the proconsuls. New levies of Dutchmen drilled in Malaya. French battalions disembarked in Indo-China. The British 6th Airborne Division, veterans of the Battle of Arnhem, stood ready at Singapore to buttress the strong policy in Java...