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French Indochina

Pasteur went on to make many more advances in microbiology. He also realized the importance of making science an international endeavor and advocated for a scientific approach to the betterment of the human condition. He once remarked, Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation. Pasteur died in 1893, two years after the first international Pasteur Institute was established in Saigon in what was then French Indochina (now Ho Chi Min City in Vietnam), see also Chirality Coordination Chemistry Isomerism Organic Chemistry. [Pg.919]

The United Nations had established the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE) in 1947, and this body subsequently initiated a series of studies focusing on the development of the lower Mekong (Mekong Committee Secretariat, 1989). By 1954, all the former countries of French Indochina had gained independence (Osborne, 2000). While the withdrawal of colonial powers set the... [Pg.1640]

According to the publication Der Heimkehrer,74 French officers and soldiers returning from Indochina stated that they could not understand what was happening at that time, 1 A years after the war, to the former members of the German occupation forces. They pointed out that incidents like Ora-dour take place in Indochina on a weekly basis, and must take place, in fact, for the sake of the protection of the French troops there. [Pg.538]


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