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A country of our own, 1946
On 27 May 1946 the French High Commissioner created by decree a government for the Montagnard people of southern Indochina, over a territory with defined borders. Within four years the same lands had been handed to a Vietnamese king without our being asked, and within nine they had been absorbed by force into a republic. All three documents stil...
The country itself
A plateau country of red basalt soil, forest and river valleys, between 500 and 1,500 metres above the sea, some 54,548 square kilometres of it. Its boundaries were drawn on 27 May 1946 by the colonial power itself — and the drawing left out the coast we had already been driven from.
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