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...Chungking passage of the bill "marked a turning point in world affairs." In Athens the newspaper Kathemerini echoed U. S. isolationists, but in a different tone: "American help will go as far as dispatching military forces to Europe if necessary." In Batavia the Nieuws van den Dag voor N. I. heard "the entire civilized world heave a sigh of relief...
...Stage. At almost the same moment The Netherlands East Indies and Australia got their wind up. From Batavia orders went out for Dutch ships to put into the nearest friendly port; two of them rushed to Manila and dropped anchor. In Australia Acting Prime Minister Arthur William Fadden called a meeting of the Advisory War Council and then issued a warning to the country: "The war has moved into a new stage of the utmost gravity...
...sharp stakes of Surabaya were just one sign last week of the alertness of The Netherlands East Indies. The islands had new cause to be wary. Another Japanese negotiator was on his way to Batavia ostensibly to talk oil-but the Dutch knew that selling oil to Japan might be a very minor part of the conversations. They recalled what happened to French Indo-China...
When the Japanese mission docked at Batavia, tiny Envoy Kobayashi and his 23 aides were greeted by a guard of honor who, it happened, were: 1) the force assigned to rounding up all Japanese in case of hostilities; 2) the tallest men in the Indies. (On his return to Japan, Mr. Kobayashi told the press: "I was amazed at the tallness of the people. I do not even compare in height with a child.") Members of the Japanese mission smilingly pointed at the bristling shore fortifications, barbed wire and blockhouses. Oh yes, said the Dutch, with perfectly straight faces...
...mosquitoes-all make land attack out of the question. Furthermore, the problem narrows down for practical purposes to one of covering distances between naval bases (marked on the map by the flags of the nations to which they belong) and storming of a handful of coastal towns: Balikpapan, Tarakan, Batavia, Surabaya, Macassar, Singapore and a few others...