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...young telescopist left College and went to Canada, where he attended a flight training school in preparation for his post as pilot for the Dutch East Indies Air Force. He was transferred to Java late last summer, and remained there until he was forced to escape after the Japanese conquest...
...London reported that Soviet Russia, headlong in its winter offensive, had heightened its demands for a second front against the Nazis in Europe. Norway, rotten under conquest, strategically placed for sustained pressure on the Nazis, lay within naval and military reach of Britain. R.A.F. bombers, striking at Paris suburbs (see p. 23), raised the hope that perhaps in Germany's Occupied France the British might find an effective air front; Canada's No. 1 soldier hinted that they might even return in force to the French coast, feel for soft spots, press on toward another western front...
...world and World War II changed last week. By their conquest of Java, the Japanese split the far Pacific. Its vast expanses ceased to exist as a single Allied war area. The great zone of strategy, action and command became a set of separated zones...
...Japanese still had to mop up. In Sumatra, and other outlying Indies islands, they might have to wage a long and tough guerrilla campaign against unsubjected Dutchmen and hardy natives. But for all the purposes of war and conquest, the Japanese had Java. They had the Indies, their oil and rubber and tin, their "strategic island wall across the southwest Pacific. They had still to fight the battle of India and the battle of Australia. But they had won the battle of the Pacific...
...Conquest. Victory was not the viewpoint of "the town" on the Sunday when the invaders arrived. The first mood was confusion. The postman and policeman had gone fishing in a boat owned by Mr. Corell, "the popular storekeeper." They were several miles at sea "when they saw the small, dark transport, loaded with soldiers, go quietly past them." Conscious of their civic duties, the postman and policeman turned back in time to be thrown into the local jail. "The local troops, all twelve of them, had been away. ..." Mr. Corell, the popular storekeeper, had donated a lunch, targets, cartridges...