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Recognising that Thailand & French Indochina essentially represent the front door to their Malayan stronghold the British enact a more proactive defence and instigate an Operation Menace type endeavour in French Indochina in late 1940.
With the Free French firmly installed in Indochina does this forestall the Japanese designs on Malaya?