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117. Warta Negara, 11 December 1945.
118. Majlis [Kuala Lumpur], 12 December 1945.
119. Utusan Melayu [Singapore], 2 November 1945.
120. Ahmad Boestamam (trans. William R. Roff), Carving the path to the summit (Athens, OH, 1979), pp. 22–7.
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1. Bengal press adviser’s report for the first half of August 1945, L/P and J/5/142, OIOC.
2. Dirk Bogarde, Cleared for take-off (London, 1995), pp. 100–110.
3. As reported in John Coldstream, Dirk Bogarde: the authorised biography (London, 2005), p. 164.
4. Dirk Bogarde, Backcloth (London, 1985), pp. 125–35.
5. M. E. Dening, ‘Review of events in South-East Asia 1945 to March, 1946’, 25 March 1946, in A. J. Stockwell (ed.), British documents on the end of empire: Malaya, part I (London, 1995), p. 211.
6. Peter Bates, Japan and the British Commonwealth occupation force, 1946–52 (London, 1993).
7. George Rosie, The British in Vietnam: how the twenty-five year war began (London, 1970), p. 15.
8. David Marr, Vietnam 1945 (Berkeley, 1995), p. 135.
9. Cited in Rosie, The British in Vietnam, p. 25; there is a recent reassessment of these events in John Springhall, ‘Kicking out the Vietminh: how Britain allowed France to reoccupy south Indochina’, Journal of Contemporary History, 40, 1 (2005), pp. 115–30.
10. Marr, Vietnam, p. 458.
11. E.g. ‘A short note on Indochina’, intelligence summary appended to orders of 20th Indian Division, Gracey Papers, 4/1, LHCMA.
12. Paul Mus, Le destin de l’union française de l’Indochine à l’Afrique (Paris, 1955), cited in Susan Bayly, ‘French anthropology and the Durkheimians in Indochina’, Modern Asian Studies, 34, 3 (2000), p. 603, n. 49.
13. Germaine Krull, ‘Diary of Saigon, following the Allied occupation in September 1945’, WOS special file RG 59, lot file 59 D 190, Box 9, US National Archives, Washington, DC. We are grateful to Professor Christopher Goscha for making this available.
14. SACSEA, ‘Note on relations with surrendered Japanese forces’, Gracey Papers, 4/1, LHCMA.
15. ‘Medical History of Allied Forces in French Indo China’, September 1945–February 1946, Gracey Papers, 4/7, LHCMA.
16. Marr, Vietnam, p. 526.
17. Krull, ‘Diary of Saigon’, p. 3.
18. Ibid., p. 8.
19. Ibid., pp. 1–2.
20. Gracey’s minute in SACSEA to Cabinet, 23 September 1945, ‘Indo China Intelligence’, WO203/4431, TNA.
21. Krull, ‘Diary of Saigon’, p. 18.
22. Ibid., p. 19.
23. 12th Army to SACSEA, 27 September 1945, enclosing despatch from McKelvie, dateline Saigon, 25 September 1945, WO203/4431, TNA; cf. Krull, ‘Diary of Saigon’, p. 20.
24. Leclerc to French Minister of War, 24 September 1945, in SACSEA to Cabinet, 24 September 1945, WO203/4431, TNA.
25. See Christopher Goscha, ‘Belated Asian allies: the technical and military contribution of Japanese deserters (1945–50)’, in Marilyn B. Young and Robert Buzzanco (eds.), A companion to the Vietnam War (Oxford, 2002), pp. 37–64.
26. Reynolds News, 30 September 1945.
27. Francis Wheen, Tom Driberg: his life and indiscretions (London, 1990), p. 221.
28. Driberg regularly received copies of the nationalist ‘Viet Nam news’ and other publications and notices of nationalist activities in France and Indo-China; see Tom Driberg Papers, S3, 1–3, Christ Church, Oxford.
29. Minutes of a meeting between General Gracey and Vietnamese representatives, 10 October 1945, Gracey Papers 4/18, LHCMA.
30. Gracey to Slim, 13 October 1945, WO203/4431, TNA.
31. SACSEA to Saigon Control Commission, 24 September 1945, ibid.
32. Mountbatten to Driberg, 4 October 1945, Driberg Papers, Christ Church, Oxford, cited in Wheen, Tom Driberg, p. 219.
33. Slim to CIGS, 6 October 1945, ‘The future of Indo China’, CAB 121/741, TNA.
34. Political report 13 September to 9 November 1945, Saigon Control Commission, Gracey Papers, 4/8, LHCMA.
35. Gracey to Leclerc, 12 December 1945, Gracey Papers, 4/11, LHCMA.
36. ‘Medical