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...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...
Behind, they left perhaps 3,500 British, Australian and U.S. troops, fighting with Java's under-equipped Army of 75,000-odd under Major General Heinter Poorten. Aneta, the official Dutch news agency, cabled a last, bitter account of a country lost for want of a few ships, a few hundred planes, a few thousand well-armed troops. A Dutch dispatcher, radiophoning commercial messages (in English) to RCA. spoke the last word from Java: "We are shutting down now. Good-by till better times. Long live the Queen...
Britain's General Sir Archibald Wavell, the U.S. Army's Lieut. General George H. Brett, the Dutch Army's Major General Hein ter Poorten, the U.S. Air Forces' Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton, the Allied Navies' Vice Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich huddled in a swirl of blue and khaki staffers. In view through the windows of their three-storied headquarters, the mountains and volcanoes of Java dreamed in the sun and rain...
Thus Hein ter Poorten now holds a line which, if lost, will set back all the enemies of the Axis-set them back so far that if it does not endanger their chances of winning the war, may well make their job twice as hard and twice as long...
Last week as the battle for the Indies was joined, the U.S. and Britain had tacitly acknowledged the importance of the struggle. In command of the defense was General Sir Archibald Wavell, with Hein ter Poorten working under his command. In command of the sea forces-the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, the N.E.I. Navy and British units-was Admiral Tommy Hart, assisted by Admiral Helfrich...