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...Curtin was speaking for as well as to the U.S. last week when he said that southern Australia must be held. There the U.S. can amass land and air forces; there it can base the naval forces necessary for an attempt to recapture the Indies and drive on toward Malaya and Japan from the south...
...countrymen this Dutch sense of home, of a rooted life in his own land. The quality distinguished him and his colonial fellows from the imperial transients of other "colonies." It fired them to a fierce preparation, a planned thoroughness of resistance which the British in Burma and Malaya and dozing Americans in Honolulu and Manila patently lacked when the Japs first came. This was the quality, the mighty intangible, which Conrad Helfrich, the Indies' Lieut. Governor Hubertus van Mook and other Batavia spokesmen meant when they cried to their allies to stand with the Dutch, to risk everything...
...prophecies grew keener. In 1925 he saw other officers smile when he led the small Dutch Indies fleet far from its home waters-toward Malaya and Japan-to execute problems which involved many times the few ships actually in his command. "Don't fret," he would say, "the day will come when an English admiral, because of our superior knowledge of these waters, will ask us to command a combined fleet." The chief of the United Nations naval staff under Conrad Helfrich in Java this week is the Royal Navy's Rear Admiral A. S. E. Palliser...
Helfrich's prophecies sometimes caused trouble. Two years ago he visited Singapore. There were cocktails and good companions, but something in the leisured air of Singapore got his Dutch up. He barked that the Japs were going to attack Malaya, Singapore and the Indies, and when they did the defense would be a joint job for the British, the U.S. and the Dutch. His half-amused, half-horrified hosts asked each other: "Did you hear what that Dutchman said?" and word got back to The Hague that an alarmist admiral was disturbing the peace of the Pacific. Admiral Helfrich...
Today with Malaya gone and the rubber plantations of Java scorched, the United Nations are faced with a frightening shortage of rubber. Yet over a year and a half ago Jesse Jones was asked to get started on a 130,000-ton synthetic rubber program. A year later he had contracted for only a third of this requirement, and then only on an experimental basis. By 1944 Jones still won't have produced the required amount of rubber. With tin, it's the same story. He knew what the requirements were but never purchased the necessary stockpiles...