Word: indoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Territories. Manchuria (see below) and Formosa, must come back into China. Korea must be independent. "Part of Indo-China used to be Chinese territory and there are some Chinese living there. But we have no aspirations with regard to Indo-China, Thailand or any other place of that sort." Asked whether China would claim Hong Kong (from the British), Diplomat Soong answered: "If I were a member of your Government in Britain, answering questions in Parliament, I would say 'I must have notice of that question...
...Institute will open today at 9 o'clock with the registration, followed by the opening session at 10, when talks on the Philippines and Indo-China will be given by Catherine Porter and Olov R. T. Jense, while Clifford Bragdon, a Sheldon Fellow here, will act as a chairman...
...Siamese cats, a devotee of Montaigne, a diplomat as well as soldier, a great Colonial. He met Henri Giraud while both were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles de Gaulle mon cher after he quit the Vichyfrench governorship of Indo-China and joined the Fighting French. Now, under Georges Catroux's amiable pipe smoke, and with the help of his tact, the stubborn leaders agreed to submit their differences to a majority decision of the new Committee of Liberation...
...example, he was in Indo-China all through the 1940 crisis when the Japs took over there. He was in mid-Pacific on a Dutch ship loaded with "enough dynamite to blow us a full day's voyaging on our way" when Singapore fell. He was in Australia through the dark days before the Battle of the Coral Sea. He was in New Delhi last August helping Bill Fisher cover the rioting there...
Until 1938 the main dependence of Free China for goods that gave her life -for trucks, tires, spare parts, lubricants, fuels, the things of mobility-was on the Hong Kong-Canton route of imports. Later, until 1940, it was on the roads and railway through Indo-China. Imports through Indo-China averaged 40,000 tons a month, and the Burma Road was an insignificant supplement-perhaps 3,000 tons a month. After the fall of France, the Burma Road was the only road into China, and imports over it were lifted to an unsatisfactory maximum of 14,000 tons...