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...magnitude of world confusion could only be realized when the thousands of press dispatches, the millions of radio murmurings, and all the display of mute, invisible facts and forces were gathered into bald proximity. The persistent, patient rapping of Japan at the doors of French Indo-China (see p. 33) became really loud only when set near the ticking of the Balkans' time bomb (see p. 34); Almazán and Avila Camacho staring at each other angrily in Mexico (see p. 39), Smuts and Herzog doing the same in South Africa-these minor cockfights became significant potentials when...
Since Japan took advantage of the French collapse to impose "inspectors" on French Indo-China and prevent munitions shipments to China (TIME, July 1), Tokyo has assumed that France's prize Asiatic colony was safe in Nippon's bag. But before Japan could actually move in and take it, Oriental propriety demanded a righteous motive. It came last week when ousted Governor General Georges Catroux led important units of the Indo-Chinese colonial forces to the standard of General Charles de Gaulle, self-styled Commander of Free Frenchmen...
...matter of grave moment to Japan," growled the Tokyo press, describing De Gaulle as "a mere puppet of the British Government." Major General Issaku Nishihara, head of a big Japanese mission now in Indo-China to squeeze concessions out of the new Vichy-appointed Governor General, Admiral Jean Decoux, whipped out an ultimatum. He demanded on threat of immediate invasion the use of French IndoChina's chief port, Haiphong, as a naval and air base, and permission to transport Japanese equipment and troops over the French-owned Indo-Chinese Railway for an attack on South China...
...Japan the matter of grave moment was not the prospect of De Gaulle forces acquiring control of French Indo-China but of Japan being maneuvered out of her final chance to end the "China Affair." Her front, thinned out dangerously to cover 2,000 miles of Chinese territory, was being pushed back in the north, and southern Japanese forces, stranded in Kwangsi Province, faced methodical extermination unless aid arrived via French Indo-China. To advance farther into China was to risk having supply lines cut from the rear. Japan's only hope of quick victory lay in a flanking...
Aware that the invasion of Yünnan Province through Indo-China would put a serious crimp in his resistance and would enable the Japanese to cut the Burma Road should the British decide to reopen it, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced from Chungking that Chinese troops would counter-invade if Japanese forces were permitted to enter French Indo-China "under whatever pretext and whatever conditions...