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Council, which was composed only of Indochinese, and later the Grand Federal Council were the formal structures that Decoux felt he needed to build to develop the Indochinese federal consciousness simultaneously with the elevation of the elite. Rather than a legislative or executive body, the Federal Council in both its forms was a body consisting of non-elected indigenous elites. They gave their opinions to the Governor General to assist him in his decision-making and served as a forum to strengthen relations between these elites and the authorities.
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reverse the reluctance of the local population to accept the politics of collaboration. In addition, he apparently wished to show goodwill toward the Indochinese peoples after Roosevelt's public statement that maintaining French sovereignty in Indochina was not a principal objective of the United States. The French colonial authorities learnt of the policy through BBC broadcasts.
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Arrested, Decoux was tried by Justice High Court and placed under house arrest. There, he was tortured for two days by former French Communist partisans and left for dead. Cared for in the Val de Grâce Military Hospital in Paris, he was declared innocent of all charges in 1949 and restored to his
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The GFC replaced the IFC in 1943 by introducing 23 French representatives (from the economy's principal sectors, making it, according to Decoux, more representative) and adding five local members, thereby ensuring that the Indochinese presence outnumbered the European. Decoux believed that would
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He was promoted to aspirant second class in 1903, to aspirant first class the following year, ship-of-the-line ensign (sub-lieutenant) in 1906, ship-of-the-line lieutenant (lieutenant) in 1913, corvette captain (lieutenant-commander) in 1920, frigate captain (commander) in 1923, ship-of-the-line
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Decoux worked to improve relations between French colonists and the Vietnamese. He established a grand federal council containing twice as many Vietnamese members as Frenchmen and installed Vietnamese in civil-service positions with equal pay to that of French officials. The Indochinese Federal
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Like his predecessor, Decoux initially wished to continue the fight against the Axis powers, but he swore allegiance to Pétain's regime after realizing that his meager armed forces were no match for the Japanese.
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He was appointed commander of the defence sector at Toulon in 1938 and promoted to vice-admiral (two-star rear admiral).
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Anonymous, "Toll of French Submarine Raised to 71 Dead; Saigon in Mourning," Associated Press, 17 June 1939, p. 1.
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On 13 January 1939, Decoux was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces in the Far East by President
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Decoux reportedly received demands from the Japanese in early August for permission to move troops through
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Vichy in the Tropics: Petain's National Revolution in Madagascar, Guadeloupe, and Indochina, 1940–44
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Decoux's first wife, Suzanne Humbert, died in a traffic accident in 1944. She is buried in the
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Khanh, Huynh Kim "Vietnamese Communism, 1925–1945" Cornell University Press, 1986
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Harbour to the Japanese and gave them the right to station troops in the region.
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A la barre de l'Indochine: histoire de mon Gouvernement Général, 1940-1945
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captain in 1929 and rear admiral (one-star rear admiral) in 1935.
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during a training exercise on 15 June 1939, he ordered the
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One writer claims that Decoux remained unconcerned by the
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of the government and ousted Decoux, establishing the
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Decoux enforced the discriminatory Vichy laws against
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Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces in the Far East
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former rank and privileges. He later wrote the book
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Bordeaux
Paris
French Third Republic
Vichy France
French Navy
Governor-General of French Indochina
Georges Catroux
Yuitsu Tsuchihashi
Union of Independent and Republican Nationals
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[ʒɑ̃d(ə)ku]
French Navy
admiral
Governor-General of French Indochina
Vichy French
Bordeaux
Upper Savoy
École navale

Saigon
Albert Lebrun
squadron vice-admiral
submarine
Phénix
South China Sea
light cruiser
Lamotte-Picquet
L'Espoir
sea bed

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