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Hourglass. To the public observer, nothing startlingly new had developed. Premier Hideki To jo had made a violent and militant speech. Japanese troop transports, supposedly 70 strong, were supposedly still pouring fresh Japanese divisions into French Indo-China, for a possible thrust into Thailand and at the Burma Road, last artery of aid to China (see p. 27). But the Dutch were mobilized to the spit-&-polish point in Batavia; not only Singapore but all of the Straits Settlements were in a state of emergency; at Hong Kong every British soldier was at war post; U.S. Marines arrived at Olongapo...
...began to happen. It was plain that Japan's answer was being given, not in words in Washington, but in troop movements in the Far East. In Tokyo U.S. Ambassador Grew and Foreign Minister Togo were minding their diplomatic Ps & Qs, but Japanese troops were pouring into French Indo-China, threatening the Burma Road...
...Japan and the U.S. began their talks with the arrival of Ambassador Nomura last spring. In the middle of them, Japan invaded Indo-China. There is a deadly parallel with the current Kurusu talks and Japan's gestures toward Thailand...
Five formations of Japanese planes roared from northern Indo-China to Kun ming on the Burma Road, bombed supply-depots and machine-gunned truck convoys in the first air attack on the Road since last spring...
When France let the Nazis into Syria, she went beyond the armistice conditions. She went beyond them again when she let the Japanese move into Indo-China. With a long-suffering air of this-has-gone-far-enough, the State Department last week announced: "The French Government has acquiesced to the express demand of Hitler to remove General Weygand . . . [therefore] American policy toward France is being reviewed and all plans for economic assistance to French North Africa are suspended...