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...Asia's close-packed millions, no other food so satisfies their taste. The most populous countries of East Asia (China, Japan, Java), for all their unceasing efforts, are barely self-sufficient in normal times. China has a slight but chronic deficit. Three other Asiatic countries (Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China) produce almost the entire world's supply of commercially exported rice. Some years they export as much as 6,000,000 tons among them to such countries as India, Malaya, Cuba, France...
...Japan's special position in North China. In return for this Japan would: 3) make peace with Chiang Kai-shek on a basis of American mediation, withdraw from all China south of the Yellow River and west of the Peking-Nanking line; 4) withdraw from South China and Indo-China; 5) abandon the southward drive. Nor was this all. Am bassador Nomura further was to seek restoration of normal U.S. -Japanese trade relations, Anglo-American recognition in principle of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, U.S. economic assistance to Japan...
When Menzies returned to the opening session of the Australian Parliament in May he raised not a ripple of applause, went to his seat under the silent stares of the House. As Japan moved into Indo-China, the Cabinet decided that it was imperative that some member of the Cabinet serve as a liaison man with London, declared that Menzies was the obvious man for the job. He thought so too. Firmly John Curtin replied for the opposition that in time of crisis the Prime Minister was urgently needed at home...
...King Sisowath II of Cambodia. It had had less & less to live for. A few years ago depression obliged it to part with 100 of its 200 wives. Last March Japanese mediators took a large part of Sisowath's steaming, many-templed puppet realm away from French Indo-China, gave it to Thailand...
...body was placed in a gleaming gold-&-silver catafalque. As plaintive music sounded, the new, handsome young King Sianouk of Cambodia, Sisowath's nephew, lighted a fire under Sisowath's bodily remains and incinerated them. An elegantly robed and uniformed audience made obeisance. Among them were French Indo-China's Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux, who used to rule over Sisowath, and a Japanese General representing Emperor Hirohito, who now rules over Governor General Decoux...