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...colonials, had seen blood on the moon over the Java Sea since he was a slim stripling. It was part of life in the underarmed, fabulously rich, strangely strategic Indies, lying like a rich, jewel-encrusted girdle athwart the sea traffic of half the world. Some day the hungry Jap would snatch at that girdle to pilfer its jewels. If he succeeded, that half of the world...
After World War I, the moon over the Java Sea grew ruddier than ever before. The Jap had wangled the mandated islands, and soon clamped a fortified strangle hold on the U.S.'s line of supply between Pearl Harbor and Manila. While the Jap entrenched himself he reached north into Manchuria for his supplies against the great war, then crept down China's coast toward Hong Kong. The fearful Dutch did more than the rest of the world to get ready. Dutch diplomacy, dedicated to the proposition that oil to the enemy is poison to the giver, slapped...
...When the Jap struck, the Indies were as ready as could be expected. Admiral Helfrich had a respectably equipped Navy: five cruisers, more than 20 submarines, a well-trained but small fleet of destroyers (six to eight), torpedo boats and auxiliaries. He also had a vastly strengthened base at Surabaya, where everything but capital ships could be overhauled, a good secondary base on Amboina...
Blood on the Islands. The Jap's furious assault on the Philippines and Malaya has worked better than anybody but the Jap (and perhaps the Dutch) had expected. The Jap has knocked out Hong Kong and Manila, immobilized the great base at Singapore and grievously threatened its possession. Already his pathway to the Indies has been opened...
Hitler must be kept busy and Hitler must be beaten. Beating Hitler would not necessarily mean the collapse of the Jap. But if the Jap can once call Singapore and the Indies his own, he can feed on the Indies-its oil, strategic metals, foods-growing new muscles on his runt-sized economic frame. Meantime the democracies would be cut short of rubber, tin and other strategic metals, tapioca (for sizing cotton and for abrasives), copra (for fats) and all the other vital supplies that the Indies supply...