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...trouble in Indo-China (TIME, Sept. 24) worsened last week. The fever of nationalism that broke out in Saigon spread to islands of The Netherlands East Indies, as the Allied colonial powers scrambled to pick up the pieces of their Southeast Asia empires. It was clear that the empires' inhabitants had heard a bout such things as the four freedoms and the coming Philippine independence...
Britain, the strongest imperialist, had agreed to occupy southern Indo-China until the French could send forces to reclaim it. Moving into Saigon last month, Major General Douglas Gracey told the nationalist Viet Nam Party to suspend business, asked surrendering Japanese to help him keep the peace, let them keep their arms...
...token French force accompanied the British, the Chinese had agreed to let 5,000 French soldiers enter with their occupation army, and 2,200 more French troops were on their way from Marseille. Whether they would be enough to cope with explosive Indo-China was doubtful, unless British and Chinese aid was substantial and prolonged. A Hanoi broadcast said that Indo-Chinese nationalists had proclaimed a republic...
Although the United Nations were helping return Indo-China to France, Paris had long realized that some compromises would be necessary. There was talk of a semi-autonomous Indo-Chinese Federation in a new French Federal Union. Said a spokesman for the Ministry of Colonies in Paris last week: "We would do well to eliminate from our vocabulary such phrases as 'our beautiful colony' and 'our Far Eastern possessions...
...Indo-China the Japanese were ready to quit, but the French expected trouble from Japanese-incited natives. The British, with negotiations completed for the surrender of Singapore's city and fortress, feared the same sort of difficulty...