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...obvious to the Dutch that if the Japanese had an easy time in Malaya, if they took the Philippines, then the Dutch islands of Borneo, Java, Sumatra would be next on the list of the Mikado's Lord High Executioner. And first to fall would probably be Borneo, of which the Brookes' Sarawak is a small part...
...Eastern, headed by tall, grey Charles B. Rayner, for ten years Standard Oil manager in Java, The Netherlands East Indies and Thailand, later a Texas...
...Pacific U.S. ships form a long thin supply line stretching from Panama to the Straits of Malacca and the Java Sea; to the ports of the Dutch Indies, Singapore, Penang; to the Indian Ocean and along Africa's coast. Homeward bound most of these ships bring the U.S. vital Far Eastern cargoes. Outward bound many of them have been carrying supplies to China, Russia and the British in the Middle East...
...this a measure that helps defeat Japan? Where does the Committee think Singapore and Java are located? How does the Committee propose that the United States defeat Japan without the fullest aid by Britain, China, and the Netherlands--and perhaps Russia...
...some other Asiatic tongues, one word is used for both "rice" and "food." No other grain yields so heavy a crop on the crowded fields of Asia's close-packed millions, no other food so satisfies their taste. The most populous countries of East Asia (China, Japan, Java), for all their unceasing efforts, are barely self-sufficient in normal times. China has a slight but chronic deficit. Three other Asiatic countries (Burma, Thailand, French Indo-China) produce almost the entire world's supply of commercially exported rice. Some years they export as much as 6,000,000 tons...