ABSTRACT
Even before the end of the Second Empire the interests of Europeans in China had come to paths of separation. For six years after the War, Indo-China came to be thought of as a French El Dorado. “Colonization” on a grand scale began, and old companies like the Societe des Distilleries de l’Indochine launched new lines of business. The crisis of 1929 hit Indo-China hard. The decline of communistic activity by no means promised decline of nationalistic activities. Since the Comintern-inspired rebellion of 1931 was quelled, the French authorities have taken precautions against agitation from abroad which have so far proved effective, but it is difficult to prevent smuggling of pamphlets into the country. The Comintern instructions to agents in Indo-China aim to organize the masses to expel the French; rather than insisting on pure Communism, they would organize an intermediate bourgeois democratic revolt, aided by all dissident elements.
