Reel 17429 - Page 0089

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Reel 17429 - Page 0089

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https://image-uab.canadiana.ca/iiif/2/69429%2Fc0j96070bz8h/full/max/0/default.jpg

Date

1941/1945

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Public Domain

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image/jpeg

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fra

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t17429_0089

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Once negotiations had been started
(we were assured ?) that then our guarantee of security
would be renewed and the essential independence of the
administration preserved. There is a close analogy
between the situation in Indo-China and that in Palestine
and Syria. France has been subjected in (Europe also ?)
to an ignominious trampling upon her rights. Disposed
to (yield ?) to a relatively large extent, (the time
came ?) when it became impossible to avoid the necessity
of resisting attack. Things reached this point in the
east because of the disparity between our forces ---
and those of Japan.

Alone in suffering the consequences of these
defeats, our country is still alone, and has suffered
hopelessly with the extension of her difficulties for
the past month. x

Informed by the commander of her armies that
she was defeated, France remains none the less in control
of her Empire. Undoubtedly, Indo-China has had to sub-
mit to the power of those international forces which

x - It is recalled that France capitulated in Syria on
July 12.

File No. D-94
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Examination Unit