An item referred to CINC Singapore reporting that the Indo-China government negotiated with Japan for dispatching of 2-3 French merchant ships to transport troops to sent from Indo-China to capture Tahiti, French Polynesia. Impossible to do so by Vichy France was such attack by Japan or together with Vichy France against Free French territories a possibility. The news was valued as possible rumors.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 17 dated 27 December 1941.
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