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Before Perry opened Japan to the West, the average Jap was a connoisseur who bought the best colored block prints for a few pennies each, as Americans of the day bought Currier & Ives. Ukiyoye, like the Currier & Ives, were mostly genre scenes and tourist views, but the similarity ended there. Glowed the New York Sun's scholarly art critic Henry McBride, after seeing the Met's collection: "It is difficult to think of any other people in any other age who maintained so high a standard in 'popular...
Last week at The Hague, Johannes A. Jonkman, Minister of Overseas Territories, struggled with the job of putting Citizen de Jong's fears into political terms. Jonkman, who lost all his hair in a Jap prison camp in the Indies, worked so hard to draft his speech to The Netherlands States-General that friends feared his health would break down. After he made the speech, interpreting the proposed pact between the Dutch Government and Soekarno's rebel Indonesian government, Holland's politicians and people were still as unhappy and undecided about the issue as Pieter de Jong...
...Dutch were reluctant to admit that native unrest has been stirring for years. Some Hollanders were inclined to blame it all on the Japs. Said Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, The Netherlands' wartime Premier in Exile: "We are in danger of losing the war." Others blamed it all on a Jap puppet. Said an Amsterdam cigar-store proprietor last week: "This fellow Soekarno is just a crook and a collaborator who is certainly going to turn Communist within the next five years. We have killed our own quisling Mussert in Holland-we ought to shoot Soekarho...
...still on Flores when the Japs attacked the N.E.I. In eight days the Dutch lost Java. Gallant but inept, the Dutch Navy bungled into calamity and the Dutch air force was destroyed. Thereafter, it would have been pointless, militarily, for the Dutch Army to attempt resistance. To the Indonesians, however, the Army was the symbol of Dutch rule. When the Army did not fight and Dutch Governor General A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer* fled to Australia, the Indonesians lost all respect for the Dutch. Millions of Indonesians swallowed the Jap slogan "Asia for the Asiatics...
...Tipoff. Moreover, continues Zacharias, he for one knew what the Japs were likely to do, and warned Washington well in advance. As early as October 1940, Zacharias learned of an impending raid by Jap suicide planes on U.S. capital ships. The raid, of course, never came off, but "from then on, I expected a Japanese attack . . . momentarily." Navy brass, he says, shared this apprehension "only in the most perfunctory manner...