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...Kwangsi and Yunnan Provinces 200,000 of the best troops China possesses fingered their rifles last week, awaiting a showdown in the game of pressure diplomacy across the frontier. In the last two months Japan's hell-for-leather Army mission had twice pushed negotiations with French Indo-China to a stalemate, had threateningly packed its bags, then backed down. But each time the Japanese came back with even stiffer demands. Last week they pushed hard for the most drastic terms...
Brusquely they issued an ultimatum demanding air and naval stations in French Indo-China and the right to transport more troops across the peninsula for a backdoor attack on China. There were rumors that they wanted to subdivide the country into a northern, Japanese-controlled state, a central buffer, and a southern, French-controlled section...
...show they meant business they ordered the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Indo-China, began moving them to the port city of Haiphong. Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of the mission, gravely warned: "When I leave French territory you may say the crisis has been reached." But the same day Japan backed down again, then announced that the negotiations were again going along smoothly. The Foreign Office in Tokyo glibly denied that there had ever been any ultimatum anyway...
...Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely due to misunderstanding on the part of French Indo-China...
...other hand, responsible Indian leaders do not wish to hamper the British war effort because the collapse of Britain would make India-like French Indo-China-the prey of the land-grabbing dictators. Meeting last week at Poona, the Indian National Congress Committee took cognizance of a tight situation when it adopted an anti-war but pro-British policy, elected as its leader by 192 to 7 votes the only man in India sufficiently astute to reconcile these two conflicting views-Mahatma Gandhi...