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Saxons fought Anglo-Saxons and destroyed the monuments their cultures had built. Off the coast of Africa, Frenchmen fought Frenchmen and their former allies, the British. In Indo-China Frenchmen fought their conqueror's allies, the Japanese. In China, yellow men fought yellow men, even as white men fought white men in Europe and black men fought black men-on white men's orders -in Africa...
...great battle had already begun. Pundit Walter Lippmann called it the Battle of the Oceans. The day before the pact was signed he wrote: "The battles over England and northern Europe and in the English Channel, at Gibraltar, toward Egypt and Suez, at Dakar in Africa and in French Indo-China are the opening battles of a great campaign in which there is at stake . . . the mastery of the oceans of the world...
...steaming afternoon last week in Hanoi, Governor General Admiral Jean Decoux of Indo-China and Japan's supreme penetrator General Issaku Nishi-hara sat down and signed an agreement. It permitted Japan to establish three air bases in Tonkin, the northern province of Indo-China, and to garrison the bases with about 6,000 troops. The French out-Japanesed the Japanese in their comments. Admiral Decoux called the agreement "one of the greatest marks of confidence one country can give another." General Maurice Martin, Commander of the Indo-China Army, called it "the first manifestation of a durable friendship...
While the penetration of Tonkin was first of all a movement against South China, it was also the first move in consolidation of the flanks preceding an attack on Singapore. Since Thailand last week showed itself in complete sympathy with the Japanese by sending over French Indo-China a lone "token" bomber, and since there is a good railroad from Haiphong to strategic Saigon to the south, this single stroke practically sewed up the western flank. The eastern flank, comprising the Philippines and The Netherlands Indies, was also partially blanketed-by the three-way pact. The pact was largely directed...
...week's end French resistance fizzled out, on orders from Vichy. In that town of pathetic, hollow words Foreign Minister Baudouin reported to Premier Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain that all fighting had ceased. "Hence," continued the Foreign Minister, who once made a fortune out of Indo-China, "the French-Japanese accord now goes into effect in the friendly, trustful spirit which prevailed at its establishment...