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Sore points with the Japanese are Secretary of State Cordell Hull's warning to Japan to preserve the status quo in French Indo-China and the U. S. embargo on export of oil and scrap iron to Japan. Behind these moves is U. S. opposition to Japanese expansion southward, where lie vital rubber...
...midnight in Hanoi and Admiral Jean Decoux, Governor General of French Indo-China, was in bed when Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of the Japanese military mission, arrived at his residence last week and demanded an immediate audience. "I am not getting up," shouted the irate Admiral. "If the Japanese want to declare war, they can do it tomorrow morning...
...close to French Indo-China last week that the thought of it no longer caused alarm. Japan, self-appointed guardian of "Greater East Asia," had left no doubt that she intended to fall upon the fat prey to the south, but two factors caused her to hold her hand: uncertainty regarding the outcome of Hitler's war in Europe, and the presence of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific. The risk of becoming involved both in China and French Indo-China before Britain was definitely on her back, plus the probability of a complete U. S. embargo...
Next task of an attack from the north is to neutralize the flanks for a southwesterly drive. Northern French Indo-China has been penetrated economically and to a large extent militarily merely by bluff, following the fall of France. By a combination of bluff and force, it appeared easy to subdue the only other important Indo-Chinese ports: Cam-ranh Bay, which is not so strong as the French had advertised, and Saigon, which is negligible. The Japanese have already softened up Thailand by an appeal to racism-and might be further bribed by the return of Siamese territory...
...tacitly understood boundaries of Greater East Asia include Japan, Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, The Netherlands East Indies. The next step, about which many young Japanese speak frankly, is to delete the word East: establish Japanese hegemony over Greater Asia, meaning the Philippines, Burma, India, Australia. The strategic problem of attaining the first of these objectives appears on the map which occupies the following two pages...