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Year IV. The Japs took over Indo-China. The British reopened the Burma Road. The U.S. embargoed iron & steel to Japan, lent the first $100,000,000 to China. From his Chungking capital Chiang Kai-shek voiced an old belief: that most of the world hated aggressors, wanted peace; that if China held on, powerful allies would come to her side. China held...
...Problem. For the first time, hints of friction in Southeast Asia had been spoken out loud. Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten differs with Stilwell, looks far into the future, wants to retake Sumatra, Malaya (with Singapore), Thailand, Indo-China, punch through a sea route to China. Stilwell's Chinese troops and his air force are necessary for that program...
Submarines, operating in the China Sea, hacked at the lifelines which carried coking coal from Indo-China, oil from the East Indies, materials which the Emperor's war machine must have or stall. Washington announced this week that 14 more Jap ships, including three transports, had fallen victim to the raiders, bringing the submarine score against Jap ships to 422 definitely destroyed...
Said Eden, reporting on prison camps in Siam, Burma, Malaya, Java, Borneo, Indo-China and the Philippines: "There are many thousands of prisoners from the British Commonwealth, including India, who are being compelled by the Japanese military to live under tropical jungle conditions without adequate shelter, clothing, food or medical attention . . . building railways and making roads . . . their health is rapidly deteriorating . . . there have been some thousands of deaths. The number of deaths reported by the Japanese to us is just over 100. . . . The refusal of the Japanese Government to permit neutral inspection of camps in the southern area is difficult...
...French Indo-China 286,000 24,000,000 "Protected" since...