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Opposite Commissioner Yoshizawa at the Batavia conference table has been The Netherlands East Indies' genial, broad-faced, bespectacled Economics Minister Hubertus J. van Mook. As the weeks went by Minister van Mook knew very well that Japan's Army and Navy were slipping down the Indo-China coast, ever nearer the riches of the Indies. But he also knew that the Indies were becoming a nest of gun emplacements, barbed wire, trenches, that scores of U.S.-made bombers were being unloaded and assembled. And he knew that he had a very favorably disposed, if distant, neighbor named Franklin...
...speech to the nation, President Roosevelt pointedly avoided any reference to Japan. He upheld China's hand, yet did not deliberately worsen U.S.Japan relations. Secretary of State Cordell Hull pointedly denied that there had been any change in relations with Japan because of the Japanese seizure in French Indo-China of $10,000,000 worth of U.S. goods...
...south they reach the tiny islands of Palau, 500 miles closer to the U.S. than the Philippines, continue on to Portuguese Timor in the East Indies; to the west they roar to Shanghai, other Chinese cities; to the southwest they fly over Formosa to Canton, then over French Indo-China to Bangkok in pro-Japanese Thailand. The eastern and western arms of their airlines form a giant horseshoe around the Philippines (see map). To gain these far-flung routes Japan used fat subsidies, even bullets. They shot down at least two defenseless, passenger-carrying planes of competing China National Aviation...
...Recently Indo-China has had an export balance in trade with Japan of as high as 13-to-1. The new treaty seemed likely to increase Japan's annual imports from 26,000,000 yen (1939) to 70,000,000 yen (including coal, corn, iron ore, zinc, tin ore, in return for which Japan would sell textiles, porcelain, manufactured goods). In addition, Japan will be allowed to defer payments for one year on the large supplies of rice she expects to buy. Rubber, which Japan sorely needs, was not specifically mentioned-neither was it specifically excluded...
...Tokyo three days later a Thailand-French Indo-China peace treaty was signed, setting a new boundary between the two, providing that Thailand pay Indo-China 6,000,000 piasters (about $1,395,000) for 25,000 square miles of ceded territory, naming Japan as mediator in further disputes...