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The Sultan of Solo is watching..

THEN Hitler makes one when daring adventurers of the

to invade Holland we in this country think of the Hitle wedge of territory that separates Germany from our enstern shores.

But the Dutch think not only of their "ittle wedge of territory," but of their rich Hitle Empire, nearly 10,000 miles awny-the Dutch East Indies.

For rich though little Holland ja in gold and securities-one of the richest countries in Europe--her greatest wealth is in the wealth of the Indins

What Is this rich little, tlaht little Empire, tucked away in a corner of the Paclic!

Holland Beyond the Seas" th- cludes Curacao, in the Caribbean, Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), In South America, and, most im portant of all, the archipelago oftelally called the Netherlands Indies, known to the native in- habitants as Indonesia, and called by old mariners simply the Indies.

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☆ THESE islands, home of orang- utans, komodo dragons, hom hills and head-hunters, producer of pearls, spices, rare woods, are Inhabited by 60,000,000 brown- bodled souls, not counting 1,300,000 Aslaties and Europeans. Queen Wilhelminn of Holland (a)- has never visited her Empire though

Gulnea's one of New highest peaks is named after her), but she can hardly fall to appre- ciate what a windfall came to her little country that day in 1002

on a five-year voyage to claim the islands.

Netherlands

Like India, the Indies is divided into territory governed by native rulers in treaty relations with the Dutch, and terrliory governed directly.

The Dutch authorities strictly Ilmit these rulers' allowances and make sure that a purt of every little State's income finds its way inia education. hygiene, public works.

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IN Batavin sits the Volksroad, a T

legislative assembly composed half of natives and subjects of foreign origin, and half of Hollan- dero.

But the Volkeraad has limited powers. The real power rests In a tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives his Excellency Jonkheer A. W. L. Tjarde van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor- General.

Apart from being able to tell such high-rounding potentates an the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to rule their States, he can also veto any meu- sure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass

Moreover, he himself can make

his own laws.

Unlike the British, chrly Dutch colonisers were not discouraged from marrying native women, and no social ostracism came to them or their half-caste children,

Moreover, the Dutch have scru- allow the pulously refused to

tempering with the slightest

nailves moral code, even going to, products; but copra as a basis for far as to bar missionaries in some.

islands.

The Dutch have experienced little trouble in the Indies, larly because the natives would rather enjoy a quiet life than bother with polllics. Besides, they are split among more than 150 different races and languages, and this tends to make widespread rebell- ion next to impossible.

Meanwhile, the 220,000 Dutch- men in the East Indies enjoy great comfort. No white man is so poor that he cannot afford at least two tervants at salaries of about £% a month, and the usual staff of a well-to-do household numbers aix

enjoy the latest

or seven. Tywood in Java. nims from Sumatra and Borneo, and most of them own cars.

Tinned foods from home are ni- ways available, but the most famous East Indian dish is Ryst- Tafel, which is both a ceremony and a dinner.

IT has a base of rice, and consists

of a hundred or more side dishes, including fried chicken, fried pork, beef, splees, fried bananas, fried shrimps, cucumbers, pickles, ginger, eggs in every con- ceivable form. Experienced East Indian Dutchmen go to bed for a couple of hours after eating Rust- Tafel!

But there is also work to be done-rubber to be tapped in Sumatra, oll to be drilled for in Borneo and Java, tin to be dug in

ten, Bangko. Coffee,

tobacco, augur, rice are the more ordinary

facial creams, lizard skins for - shoes and handbags, Sumatra wrappers for cigars, cinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and teak- wood, ebony and macassar oil are others. The barebreasted women of Ball, that tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overseas a going con- cern.

gather in these riches colonial Dutchmen are rewarded-hand- somely. In 1935 of 83,000 Euro. peans earning a living in the East Indies some 04,000 were taxed on. incomes of more than £1,000 a year; 22,500 between £4,000 and £12.000 year.

But more significant was what this trade did to the Netherlands. Dutch investments in the East

were

valued at about £234,000,000. And to-day one- sixth of the Netherlands popula- tion of eight

Ight and a half million. people is dependent on the trade and but for it the fol; lands would probably have a &lot more than 400,000 unemployed.

Almost all the well-to-do fami- les in the Netherlands have their East Indian securities.

Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, in a large owner

of tin mines, just as she has an in- terest in nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Iler in- come was once estimated at £1,

far 000,000 a year, making her by the richest monarch of Europe.

Wilhelmina

and

Dutch the generally therefore have every possible stake in getting their country safely through this war.

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Labour's War Aims

It is unlikely a general election will be held in Britain during the war, but it is almost certain that one would be held before, the meeting of a Peace Conference..

A general election followed the Armistice of 1918 and preceded the Peace Conference at Ver- sailles.

Replacement of the present British Government by a Labour Government may be unlikely, but it is at least a possibility. Thus it is a matter of more than academic interest to ask what would happen to the peace if the making of it were entrusted to

leaders of the Labour Party.

A challenge to Americans-and

the

answer

It's your

war, too

By RICHARD GREVILLE

-America?-

-but

What's it about?

By FILL CALHOUN

An American Journalist in London

twenty years of European diplomacy. What do you want the Utilted Blates

to

do? Rush over great shiploads of there is no room for them on the troops and have them sent out to India to combat passive resistance because Maginot Line?

"COME off it, Uncle Sam" permanently safe againal the assaults

That is what millions of of Nazism? Does he seriously be-l Englishmen are saying to-day, lleve that U

triumphant Fuchrer To all Englishmen and the there is a great body of American word All is used advisedly public opinion that is yet to be con- though they may be too polite would keep his eyes permanently

vinced that England is without a share to say it more publicly than in averted from the wealth of the United--the present war may be a of guilt for the outcome of the last their local public-house.

States' 130,000,000 people, and the great crusade, Britain may be We. Uncle Sam's cousins, are vast untapped resources of South sacrificing her men, her wealth struggle in our history. With himself, realise that America is in her people so that Europe can locked to day in the mightiest Or mustn't he, if he's honest with and the immediate welfare of our allies, we are fighting for this struggle with us up to the neck-return to sanity and men may, those principles of liberty and only she isn't paying her share? justice which are the very There was a gibe about us in the live in peace and security. breath of the American political United States in 1938, when hardly a Or again, Britain may be caught in paper in the land wasn't laying into Mr. Chamberlain for his fallure tola debacle ns the result of her own in England of calling off the war with stand up to aggression before Munich. cena: own greed and her com- It taunted Britain, this gibe, with her place

The United States would like to perpetual hopefulness of American

know which is the true situation.

Are those the wings of Nazi bombers overhead, or the wings of "Pigeons coming home to roos!"?

America does not like Herr Hitler. But we abhor war, and

tradition.

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Not a politician, not a newa. paper in the United States dare whisper a doubt that our cause is good, or that the world might well be lost if it were defeated.

To the Allies and friends of Great Britain it is reassuring to know that the broad policy. of the Labour Party on the ques-open his tion of resettlement is in essen- tials the same as that of the present Government.

In her troubles. To-day, with Americans cheerlig us on in a battle they admit to be theirs too, I think that crack might be turned round. For are not the States really saying to-day:

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President Roosevelt can hardly "America Expects Every Briton To As a nation we sympathise with the

on international Do His Duty"? mouth affairs without pronouncing, a conTM demnation of Nazi methods which in forthrightness rivals those of our own statesmen.

So what? So America's public men, having assented with one accord on the necessity of our winning, go on with equi fervour to declare: "No getung into this nasty mess for us!"

Within the last few days we have seen at work this strange shying from responsibilities. For weeks American speakers and

editors hod been on the wrongs of the Finns, and cloqir desperate need for ald in

their fight for independence,

In its manifesto on "The War and the Peace," there is not a word which contradicts the peace declarations of Mr. Noville Chamberlain and Lord Halifax.

It even goes further than Mr. Chamberlain when it says that

President Roosevelt put before an association of States should Congress a timid proposal for a loan be formed around the nucleus not to be used for buying arms.

to Finland, which was specifically And provided by war-time co-opera-starica among the 300 odd Senators teoring hullabaloo immediately h tion of Britain and France, that (and Representatives: "No, this will never do. It would imperil our pre- it should have D collective

cious neutrality!" authority transcending the sovereign rights of separate States, and must control military and economic power to enforce peaceful behaviour as between its members and secure 'arma- ment reduction,

Really, come off.lt, Uucle Sami

We do not doubt of our winning our war for you, in the end. But we do not doubt either that United States intervention on our side would halve the sacrifices, and the length of the ordeal before us. For tint mat- ter, effective United States interven tion back in August might have stopped the war from ever starting.

It is clear that in all major questions relating to the war and Now, of course, George Washington its aims there are

who was a good and great man, laid. not two down the doctrine of American isola- Britains with whom friends and tion from Europe's intrigues and quarrels. But the world has grown a enemies have to deal, but one good deal smaller alnce George Washington's selling-ship, horse-and- only. A change of Government buggy days. would produce no change" of British front.

But if Germany, were to win this struggle does any intelligent Americon really imagine that he could remain

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"Why ain't you on the field? - Tryin' to, take unfair, advantago of the scholarship we gavo you, ch?”

Are we to become embroiled by sending men and atmas to Fland when there are still signs and hopes Germany and turning alt the various

war machines on Ruizia

Who's fighting whom in this war? That is one question the United States would like to know.

We admit that some American idéos of isolationism may sound peculiar to Empire-minded people. But Isola- tionism has deep roots in America. It has grown from out of history, books and the disillusionment of the last war. It is bound up with intangibles. such as the love of one's own posses- alons.

The British know about this. Is that really the reason England is at wart

A threat to England's cherished possessions and Institutions reached. across the Channel became suddenly, 'real and frightening. It still takes a long arm to carry such a terror across the Atlantic. That la one obvious. reason the United States la not at war.

If Britain feels her cause is just und that the United Staten should come in and help her smash Germany" and possibly Russia-then shouting at us to "Come off it is not the

pro

per

approach,

As a nation we like to think at least that we know what we are doing: and where we are heading. Vague- talk of our, plans for re-building a pleasant world is not anaugh aa- surance' for us that old and tragic mistakes are not going to be re- pented,

It may not be good war strategy to announce what the Allies intend to do in reshaping Europe when hostilities cease. But it definitely would be good propaganda to let America know Britain's hopes and plans for her own future, in à period" when world polities and economy are likely to undergo great and as yet. unfathomable changes.

have a healthy sceptic Americans have a

ism of anything that can be labelled European diplomacy, It „di, possible that America is hoping for the war- to, fose up a few ¡definite dues tó- what Europe is fighting for, instead: of against.