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...Cover) The U. S. people have long supposed that they were keeping their Navy in the Pacific to prevent an imperial Japanese grab-for French Indo-China, The Netherlands East Indies, British Malaya, the Philippines, all of remote Oceania. Last week it seemed that if the grab was to be stopped, the time for action was the pres ent; the place was the Pacific. It also seemed that the time and the place be longed to Japan...
...Germans, blockaded from the natural rubbers of Malaya and Ceylon, made some solid tires of synthetic rubber in World...
...weeks, have to decide whether or not it will go to war in another theatre. If German victory begins to look probable, it is highly possible that Japan will move to seize The Netherlands East Indies. If Germany goes on to destroy the British Empire, Japan may seize British Malaya...
...tonnage and dollar volume. To U. S. ports comes some 50% of the world's production (almost 500,000 long tons in 1939, of which 75% went into tires). No. 1 producer in 1939 was The Netherlands East Indies, which shipped 377,038 tons; No. 2 British Malaya shipped 375,441 tons. Cultivating seeds originally brought from South America, both have long since outstripped Brazil, whose "wild" trees last year furnished only 16,094 tons. All the "wild" trees in the world produced less than 40,000 tons last year, less than a month's supply...
...market for tin is the U. S., which consumed 70,265 of the 183,700 long tons produced in 1939. No. 1 producer is Britain's Malaya with 1939 exports of 55,945 tons, No. 2 The Netherlands East Indies with 31,281. Like rubber, tin is also controlled in production by a British dominated international cartel. British...