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...victim was Ben Robertson Jr., a soft-voiced, insatiably curious South Carolina bachelor who loved truth and people. At 39 he had lived a full life, sampling the world: he had newspapered in Hawaii and Australia, clerked in a U.S. consulate in Java, wandered through Borneo and India; he had worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Associated Press (in Washington, London) and for the New York newspaper PM (London Moscow, the Middle East, India); he had written three books praised by critics; the latest: Red Hills and Cotton, published in 1942. Last week, newly rehired...
...night last summer, a small sailboat crept out of Batavia. Aboard were three Dutchmen, the first and (so far) the only white men on record who have escaped from Java since the Japs took the island almost a year ago. Last week one of those Dutchmen, safe in the U.S., told what it was like to live under Japanese military rule...
...Kempei, Japanese version of the Gestapo, took over the police department, rounded up most of the white male population and hustled them off to camps. (Some of the prisoners were later released, but another roundup put most of them back in again. ) For eight days after the fall of Java a Bandung radio station played the Dutch national anthem at the end of every evening's broadcast. "The fellows got shot." The people listened to news broadcasts until the Japs sealed their radios...
...just one noose in the background, but the artist had so much fun drawing its intricacies that he kept right on tying knots until there were ropes enough for 22 executions. And the only reason I can find for the little monkey hanging from a tree behind Java's Governor Ter Poorten was that our artist did not like Japs...
...Java jungles Dutch guerrillas waited last week for the news. In London Queen Wilhelmina and ministers of The Netherlands Government in Exile fidgeted. In Occupied Holland people kept watch in doorways while inside their homes forbidden radio sets were tuned to London. In "a little bit of Holland" in far-off Canada, The Netherlands' Crown Princess Juliana would give birth to her third child...