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...received Admiral Jean Decoux, who as Governor General of Indo-China is actually his boss, to discuss the upstart claims against Cambodia by Thailand, lately Siam...
...Cambodian territory to Thailand; of Vichy's rejection of official Tnaï claims to that and some other territory; of renewed demands. They decided Thailand had little basis for these demands except the prostration of France. Thailand cited a secret treaty concluded between the monarchs of Cambodia and Siam in 1863 granting Siam certain concessions-on which, however, Siam later officially backed down under French pressure. The case of Thailand was neither more nor less justifiable than that of France when she first took Cambodia...
...continuous chain of mountains forming a Great Divide." Tracing this chain of mountains from the Bering Strait southwestward to the Arabian Sea, Nichi Nichi drew a line which almost coincides with the frontiers of Siberia, giving Japan's Greater East Asia all of China, French Indo-China, Siam, Burma and India. The coast line of East Asia, said Nichi Nichi, extends "from Northern Nippon southward to Indonesia, then westward to Ceylon. Asia's history shows how long there has been intercourse along this coast line. No matter how we look at this East Asia, it is a natural...
...Suma viewed this with "extreme gravity." British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie and Tani signed an agreement on the longstanding Tientsin silver dispute; Tani did not publicly comment on the obvious inference that Japan has helpless Britain where she wants her. A treaty of friendship was signed with Thailand (Siam); Suma said it was not a non-aggression treaty, a type Japan considered unsuitable "in the light of recent examples." Japanese feelers for U. S. appeasement began to get support at least in the U. S. press; Suma dryly remarked: "Good things can never come too late." Toward the Chinese...
...Pacific last week lay the U. S. battle fleet, its maneuvers completed, its next job not yet laid out. Beyond the battle fleet and across the Pacific many a U. S. businessman cast an uneasy mind's eye. For south and east from the foot of Thailand (Siam) across the Java Sea to Papua lie The Netherlands East Indies, whence the U. S. gets major portions of two strategic materials: rubber and tin. With The Netherlands at war, Japan might cut off that supply, alternatively might exploit a grab by controlling production, prices...