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...Marshal also countenanced certain outright military aid to the Axis. French Indo-China was yielded to the Japanese, with the catastrophic results visible since Dec. 7. Last year Axis planes used Syrian airports en route to Iraq. Recently Vichy shipped gasoline and other supplies to the Axis Libyan armies from French North Africa. Rumors that Axis submarines work out of Dakar have constantly been heard, if as constantly denied...
...power to oppose any direct German demands. The government's part has been that of a propaganda agency, designed to persuade the French people that all steps taken by Vichy were French steps for French Freedom. But the essential military role of French approved Japanese penetration of Indo China, without which the Malayan and Burmese campaigns would have been impossible; the production of French factories for the German army; the presence of Axis military missions in Martinique and Madagascar; and the use of French facilities to aid the Nazl Libyan campaign proved that Vichy has been an integral part...
...that the Japs might be content for the present with drives at northern and northeastern Australia. If so, the U.S. and Australia would have time to amass land, air and naval forces in the south. But "to be content for the present" did not sound like the Japs of Indo-China, Manila, Malaya, Singapore, Burma and Java...
...Conrad Helfrich, the war with Japan really began last July. When the Japanese sent warships into the Gulf of Siam and the South China Sea, he saw that they were after bases in Siam and Indo-China, and he begged his Government to let him attack forthwith. The Indies Government was more than half-willing, but after consultations with Washington and London the answer to Admiral Helfrich was: "No." He took his orders, but grumbled a warning: "If we give them time to prepare bases in Siam, they will be ready to attack Singapore in half a year...
Nikrohananda refuted the idea that Thailand had been playing ball with the Japanese before the war. The Indo-Chinese territory that his country claimed after the fall of France would have bolstered Thai defenses, he claimed. Any concessions that were given to the Japanese in that period were extorted at the point of the award...