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...office of the N.E.I. Chief of Staff sat the Japanese Consul General, faultlessly dressed, inscrutable Otosugi Saito, talking pleasantries. From the corridor, aides and orderlies heard him laugh, a discreet, flat overtone to the mellow gurgling rumble of their chief, Major General Hein ter Poorten. Then, as an aide in gleaming white duck showed Saito-san from the room the phone rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Het is Zoover | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Indies' stubborn Dutch and their broad-faced, able commander, Lieut. General Hein ter Poorten, the thrust was deadly in its possibilities, as it was to the rest of the Allies. To the U.S. it was also bitterly humiliating. The Jap struck from U.S. territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Thrust from Davao | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Japanese troops also got ashore at three points on Minahassa, the thin, eastward-reaching upper handle of Celebes. Here the Jap came by sea and by parachute. He was already in British Sarawak, on the north coast of Borneo. Hein ter Poorten and his Army Air Force commander, thin-faced Major General L. H. van Oyen, promised that oil wells would be fired, refineries dynamited before the Jap got to them for the supplies he now needs more than anything in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Thrust from Davao | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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