Vietnam Marines 1965-73 by C.D.Melson

By C.D.Melson

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Meanwhile, the French had told the British government of their suspicions that Quoc acted as a liaison officer for all the communist parties in South-East Asia (including those in Crown colonies). He was further accused of trying to overthrow the government of Annam, and being behind discontent in the Central Highlands. In an effort to speed Quoc’s return to Indochina, the French gave an undertaking that he would not be executed if the British agreed to extradite him. N. Pritt, while the Hong Kong government was represented by the equally radical figure of Sir Stafford Cripps, a man whose ultra-leftism caused him to be expelled from the Labour Party in 1939 (although he subsequently became the most austere of post-war Labour Chancellors of the Exchequer).

He allowed British consular officials to establish contact with the Japanese authorities in those parts of China under their control. 24 What of Britain’s ally France in this scenario? It, like Britain, had finite military resources, although 100,000 troops, mostly Vietnamese, Laotian or Cambodian, were stationed in Indochina by 1939. The French were acutely aware from the early 1930s of the paramount nature of the German threat, but they could not ignore the Japanese threat either. In October 1937, the Secretary General of the Quai d’Orsay, Alexis Le´ger, Vansittart’s opposite number in Paris, told the American Ambassador, William Bullitt, that as long as the present tension existed in Europe it would be impossible for France .

39 Pibul was also an open admirer of German and Italian fascism and spent heavily on Italian and Japanese armaments. A Thai-style Hitler Youth organization was even established. All this suggests either that Sir Josiah Crosby misunderstood Pibul’s real inclinations, and he was also a Thai patriot who wanted to regain the lost territories by whatever means possible, or that Crosby himself may have been complicit in condoning Pibul’s aggression against French Indochina. British Military Intelligence did not share Crosby’s view of the Thai government, or his assessment of his own influence with Field Marshal Pibul.

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