1. The Collapse of European Empires
... was simply incapable. With the British preventing any reinforcement from the metropole, the supply of fuel stopped by Japanese pressure, and Admiral Decoux making successive concessions to the Japanese in order to grasp onto some form of remaining sovereignty, albeit weak, the hold onto Indochina was almost impossible. By 1945, French authority was broken, and appointment of a nationalist government ... equipped with Japanese weaponry. The British, because of this, decided to exclude themselves in any further conflict in Asia and instead demanded a political consultation between the Ne...
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