Appendix XI. Political and Economic Conditions in Indo-China since 1939

APPENDIX XI: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS 487 States. Nevertheless, the Japanese occupation was bitterly resented by most Frenchmen in Indo-China, the more so because it involved a public humiliation of the ruling European nation in the eyes of the native Indo-Chinese, who knew that it was a surrender to the superior force of an Asiatic people.