India Quarterly (A Journal of International Affairs) January - March 1952

The big star represents the Communist Party; the other four stars represent the workers the peasants the petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie. [...] It is the people of China who will fight.' It is the patience and long period point of view that makes me feel that the Chinese Government will not move in the direction of the use of force as was employed in the Soviet Union for the construction of a socialist society. [...] sea and land forces had charge of foreign relations possessed the initiative in local affairs and supervised the work of the Lieutenant-Goternor of Cochin China and the ResidentGeneral of Annam Tonkin Cambodia and Laos—subject of course to the directions of the French Government. [...] Since the majority of the people were engaged in the cultvation of rice Indochina became a one-crop country at the mercy of the vagaries of the world market. [...] At the time of the surrender of Japan the French just did not have the men and equipment needed to disarm the Japanese and take over the administration.