Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joost Kiewiet de Jonge '41, Dutch astronomer who was drafted last winter by the Netherlands government in London, has successfully escaped from Java to Australia, news reaching Professor Bart J. Bok at the University Observatory revealed yesterday...
Last March the young telescopist left College and went to Canada, where he attended a flight training school in preparation for his post as pilot for the Dutch East Indies Air Force. He was transferred to Java late last summer, and remained there until he was forced to escape after the Japanese conquest...
Tokyo claimed last week that Japanese aircraft had bombed and seriously damaged "a specially converted aircraft carrier" in Java waters. If U.S. aircraft carriers or converted transports had entered the Japanese-dominated Indies waters, then the U.S. had taken substantial risks to succor Java...
...area, conferred with his Executive Council, talked with his private secretary Sir Gilbert Laithwaite, fed worms to his pet turtle, Jonah, whom Mohandas Gandhi once asked especially to see. Like the rest of India's millions, the Viceroy was waiting in the heat, waiting while the Japanese won Java and Rangoon, waiting to see whether, among other things, he would keep his post-waiting for London to make up its mind...
...conference split up into four groups to study, respectively, the social, economic and political problems of the post-war world and the problem of the church's own position in that world.* Discussion waxed hot & heavy, with one notable silence: in a week when the Japs were taking Java, discussion of the war itself was practically taboo. Reason: The Federal Council felt that, since five of its other commissions are directly connected with the war effort, the conference's concern should be with plans for peace. One war statement -"the Christian Church as such...