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British liberation activities in French Indo-China were not solely orientated around the political resurrection of French colonial control. Britain’s obligations under international law were far more complex. The Hague Convention of 1907, to which Britain was a signatory, decreed that
The authority of the power of the state having passed de facto into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall do all in his power to restore, and to ensure as far as possible, public order and safety.
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For a discussion concerning globalisation and the rise of the American economic empire, see T.O. Smith, ‘Europe, Americanization and Globalization’, Review Article, European History Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 2, 2007, pp. 301–309.
TNA, FO 371/46309/F8070/11/G61, Hollis to Attlee, 4 October 1945; for the counter argument that the violence in Saigon did place a maximum number on British troop deployments to French Indo-China, see D.G. Marr, Vietnam 1945: The Quest For Power, Berkley, 1995, p. 542.
For a full discussion of British liberation duties in the Dutch East Indies, see R. McMillan, The British Occupation of Indonesia 1945–1946: Britain, the Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution, London, 2005.
TNA, FO 371/46304/F1269/11/61G, Sterndale Bennett to Dening, 14 April 1945; TNA, CAB 81/46, PHP(45)29(0) Final, British Documents on the End of Empire, Series A, Volume 1: in S.R. Ashton, and S.E. Stockwell, (Eds.), Imperial Policy and Colonial Practice 1925–1945: Part 1: Metropolitan Reorganisation, Defence and International Relations, Political Change and Constitutional Reform, London, 1996, pp. 231–244.
S.M. Rosen, The Combined Food Boards of the Second World War, New York, 1951, p. 253.
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Smith, T.O. (2014). The Enforcement: Indo-China 1945–1946. In: Vietnam and the Unravelling of Empire. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137448712_5
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