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When Dr. van Mook spoke last week in Batavia, it was late in the game for Java, the Indies and the Far Pacific. It was terribly late for the Indies' "Strong Man" to have to speak of wavering uncertainty among his allies. Within a week the Japanese broke through Java's naval line (see p. 18) and set their scores of thousands of invaders upon Java's shores before the few hundred planes, the needed thousands of troops had arrived. The battle for the Indies had come to Java, and it would be won or lost with...
Today with Malaya gone and the rubber plantations of Java scorched, the United Nations are faced with a frightening shortage of rubber. Yet over a year and a half ago Jesse Jones was asked to get started on a 130,000-ton synthetic rubber program. A year later he had contracted for only a third of this requirement, and then only on an experimental basis. By 1944 Jones still won't have produced the required amount of rubber. With tin, it's the same story. He knew what the requirements were but never purchased the necessary stockpiles...
...Washington, where pressure for reinforcements for Douglas MacArthur grew, military experts explained with weary patience that a relief force is out of the question. Transportation is the insoluble problem. Heavy bombers could fly the more than 1,000 miles from Java, the nearest Allied base to Manila Bay, but not the lighter escort planes that must accompany such an armada. Water-borne planes and troops would have little, if any, chance of running the Jap's naval gantlet. Said Deputy Chief of Staff Major General R. C. Moore to the House Appropriations Committee: "We could have...
...force ought to be kept on the mainland, that men and material should even be snatched back from war fronts abroad. Quite different was the opinion of The Dutch East Indies' Lieut. Governor General Dr. Hubertus van Mook, who was in Sydney last week. Throw everything possible to Java, urged Hubertus van Mook, and Java can be saved from capture...
While battle flags flew off Java last week (see p. 15), the blue peter fluttered from yardarms at sunny San Diego and Houston, at blustery Halifax, at hot Aruba and Bahrein. The tanker fleets of the United Nations were busy. Even if the Dutch East Indies were lost, the Allies would still control 93% of the world's crude-oil production, 88% of refining facilities, almost 90% of tanker tonnage...