Allied Intelligence and Indochina, 1943-1945

Spector, Ronald H.

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“…It seems likely that at least one of these sources would have advised the Americans of Vietnamese starvation and the influx of many of its victims into the cities. 84 By May , the US State Department possessed clear evidence of the famine because Archimedes Patti, in his official capacity as an officer in the Office of Strategic Services, the United States intelligence agency, sent Washington a dossier of photos. 85 Subsequently, the United States remained intent only on the pursuit of war and the continued destruction of Vietnam's communication system.…”

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The Great Second World War Vietnam and Java Famines

Huff¹

2019

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article provides quantitative assessments of the great famines that occurred in Vietnam and Java in 1944–1945, which together claimed the lives of some 3.4 million people. It shows that in both Vietnam and Java, harvest shortfalls, in which weather figured prominently, were so large that insufficient food was available to feed everyone. Nevertheless, in both instances, even with the pressures of war and weather, governments could have acted differently and largely, perhaps even wholly, prevented famine. Although Java's famine had few political repercussions, Vietnam's was instrumental in the August 1945 Viet Minh and communist revolution.

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The Great Second World War Vietnam and Java Famines

Huff¹

2019

Mod. Asian Stud.

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“…On several occasions, Roosevelt had prohibited joint intelligence and resistance planning with the Free French. 25 Instead, the OSS drew upon information relayed from the 'GBT group'. This civilian resistance cell took its name from the initials of its three principal leaders: Laurence Gordon (a Canadian employee of the Californian-Texas Oil Corporation with numerous personal and commercial contacts inside Indo-China), Harry V. Bernard (a fellow Caltex oil official) and a Chinese-American, Frank Tan.…”

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Silent Partners: SOE's French Indo-China Section, 1943–1945

Thomas

2000

Mod. Asian Stud.

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Pursued over the last two years of the Pacific war, the Free French effort to organize and direct an effective resistance to the Japanese occupation of Indo-China ended in military failure. Characterized by administrative complexity, inadequate supplies and attenuated communications, Gaullist insurgency was marred by Free France's de facto reliance upon Admiral Louis Mountbatten's South East Asia Command (SEAC). While the re-conquest of Malaya and Burma remained incomplete, British backing for a resistance network in Indo-China was bound to be limited. And as British interest in the final re-conquest of their own territories climaxed in the spring and summer of 1945, so material provision for the French in Indo-China inevitably declined. Although Mountbatten consistently supported his Free French protégés, Churchill, in particular, was reluctant to take issue with his American allies. Neither the US government nor American commanders in China and the Pacific supported Free French methods and objectives. By 1945, the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS), dedicated to supporting guerrilla warfare and resistance organization, and the Office of War Information (OWI), which disseminated US propaganda, were developing independent contacts inside northern Indo-China. As a result, the OSS increasingly endorsed the one truly effective resistance movement: Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh coalition.

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Relations with the British and French

Smith

2011

A Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Allied Intelligence and Indochina, 1943-1945

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

The Great Second World War Vietnam and Java Famines

The Great Second World War Vietnam and Java Famines

Silent Partners: SOE's French Indo-China Section, 1943–1945

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