Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill extending the 40-hour work week (while the majority of the nation would have it stretched to 60 hours), vetoes it because the laborites make a mutual "I'll vote for you if you'll vote for me" swap with the farm bloc. So Singapore, Malaya, Java, the Philippines fall for want of equipment. When is this petty conniving, this sabotage for special privileges...
...three senior commanders under General MacArthur, two were Americans: Lieut. General George H. Brett, a veteran of Java, in charge of the air, and Rear Admiral Herbert F. Leary, in command at sea. Third in the top triumvirate was General Sir Thomas Albert Blarney, commanding all ground forces. Blue-eyed, 58-year-old General Blarney had just returned from the Middle East, bringing with him a big part of the Australian Imperial Force which had fought in Greece, Crete and Libya...
TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod last week cabled from Melbourne this account of how the Dutchmen of Java died fighting...
When the history of War II is written, that page belonging to the indomitable Dutch should be illuminated with the blood of heroes. For a thousand years free men should stand and uncover whenever the Battle of Java is mentioned. They never had a chance, those Dutchmen, but they freely gave their lives in the hope that others might have a chance...
Throughout Australia the Dutch are revered, especially by the Americans. The opinion is unanimous that the Dutchmen of Java fought as bravely as the Spartans at Thermopylae or the Texans in the Alamo. "I'll fight the man who says anything against the Dutch," drawls a fierce little towheaded Kentucky mountaineer who piloted a big bomber during the Battle of Java...