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Minister van Mook was a scholar raised to the rank of statesman. He came of sturdy stock (a great-grandfather marched to Moscow and back with Napoleon), was the son of two schoolteachers. Born in Semarang, Java, he was educated in Amsterdam, Delft, Leiden (and for a few months later on attended California's Stanford University). He is still proud of his American slang and of being a cover-to-cover reader of TIME. Back in the Indies, he became a civil servant, served a hitch as adviser to the Sultan of Jokyakarta. By 1931, when he decided...
...Dutch, though now armed, could not defend New Guinea or Celebes; the Japanese might also take some smaller island such as Bali with its classically breasted maidens. But the three key islands, Borneo, Sumatra and Java, were tough porcupines to grab. Granted Japan's estimated 2,000,000 tons of available shipping could transport between 100,000 and 200,000 men, with their equipment, across 2.800 miles of the China Sea, a landing on Borneo might be successful. But the oil wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need...
Surabaya, Java, for air-raid shelters, recently dug trenches, screened them with bamboo as protection against bomb splinters and flying debris. Last week travelers from Java reported that a few weeks after the shelters were built pleased natives wrote a letter of thanks to the Government. "Thank you very much for the new W.C.s," said the letter. "We have needed them for a long time." Dutch officers hastily inspected the new shelters, found the letter was no joke...
...reasons of piety that the discoverer of the Java Man withdrew the fossils from further examination until 1926. Only his immediate family knows the real reason, and I am now writing the story of my father's life and discoveries, in which I will mention the real reason...
...Victory" Miss Fields plays the part of a young pianist with a travelling girls' orchestra doing a flock of one-nighters in the Dutch East Indies. To avoid the advances of the male conductor she runs away with Fredric March, to his private island in the Java Sea, only to become involved in a plot which threatens both their lives--a plot made all the more evil in that it comes from the warped mind of a jaded soldier of fortune (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) and his knife-throwing lieutenant (Jerome Cowan...