ABSTRACT
The “Military victory” of the French troops in Indochina is “complete,” as has been affirmed in France and in official circles. An entire people is ready to become guerrillas. The Indochinese Federation comprises Tonkin and Annam, which form the Republic of Viet Minh; Cochinchina, which was a part of the Viet Republic and was made by the colonial conspiracy into a Republic of Cochinchina; the Kingdom of Cambodia, which signed a modus vivendi opposed by members of the intellectual class, organized as the Cambodians Issara; and the Kingdom of Laos, whose entire government is in exile and whose French-appointed government has accepted a modus vivendi unrecognized by the government in exile. The Laos do not reproach France for having exploited them— and with good reason, as France has done little; they reproach France, on the contrary, for not having developed the country, for not having done something with the natural wealth of the country.
