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KTHEN Hitler makes one of his periodical threat's to invade Holland we in. this country think of the little wedge of territory that separates Germany from our eastern shores,

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

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

What is this rich little, tight little

Empire, tucked away in a corner of the Pacific?

Holland Beyond the Sens in- cludes Curacao, in the Caribbean, Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), in South America, and, most im portant of all, the archipelago ofcially 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 oring- utans, komodo dragons, hom- hills and head-hunters," producers of pearls, spices, rare woods, are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown- bodler soule, not counting

some 1,500,000 Astatics and Europeans.

Queen Wilhelmina of has never visited her Empire (al- though

of New Guinea's 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

one

when during adventurers of the antives' morat, code, even going so far as to bar in)isionaries in rome Dutch East India Company set out islands. on a five-year voyage to claim the. Isinnds..

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

The Dutch authorities strictly Imithese rulers' allowances and make sure that a part of every little State's income finds its way

works.

The Dutch have experiened little trouble in the Indies, largdy because the natives would rather enjoy a quiet life than bother with poiffles, Besides, they are spil than mong more

150 different races and languages, and this tends to make widespread rebell- ion next to impossible.

Mernwhile, the 220,000 Dutch- inte education, hygiene, public 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 £z a and sunt staff of a

Batovia sits the Volksraod, a

Iterative assembly composed month, an household numbers six

half of natives and subjects of foreign origin, and half of Hollen-

But the Volksread hi ders.

The real power limited powers. Tosta in tropical palace at Bultenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives his Excellency Jonkheer

A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor- General.

Apart from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to rule their States, he can also veto any meu- sure that a rebelllous Volkeraad might pass.

Moreover, he himself enn make his own laws.

Unlike the British, early Dutch colonisers were Holland

not discouraged from marrying native women, and no social ostracism came to them or their half-caste children.

Moreover, the Dutch have seru- pulously refused to allow the slighter! tempering with

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or seven. They enjoy the latest films

ns from Hollywood. In Java. Sumatra und Borneo, and most of them own cars.

Tinned foods from home are al- ways available, but the most famous East Indian dish is dust Tafel, which is both o ceremony und a dinner.

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IT has a base of rice, and consists

of a hundred or more side dishes, including fried chicken. fried pork, beet, spices, tried bananas, fried shrimps, cucumbers,

ginger, eggs in every con- table fem. Experienced East Indian Dutchmen go to bed, for a couple of hours after cating Ryst- Tafel

But there is also work to be

.10 done-rubber be topped in Sumatra, cil to be drilled for In Borneo and Java, In to be dug in Bungka. Coffee, ten, tobacco, sugar, rice are the more ordinary

products; but copra na a basis for facial creams, lizard skins for Sumatra shoes and handbags, wrappers for elgars, rinchona bark for quinine, sandalwood and toak- wood, ebony and macassar oll are uthers. The burebreasted womop of Ball, that tourist paradise, do their full share in making this Netherlands overnena a going con-

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Dutchmen are rewarded hand- gather in these riches colonia! somely. In 1835 of 85,000 Euro- penns earning a living in the East Indies some 84,000 were taxed on incomes of more than £1,000 year; 22,600 between £4,000 and £12,000 a year

But more significant was what this trade did to the Netherlands. Dutch Investments in the East' Indies were valued at about £234,000,000. And to-day one- sixth of the Netherlands popula-

tion of eight and a half million people is dependent on the colonfal trade and but for it the Nether- 101 lands would probably have more than 400,000 unemployed.

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

Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, is a large owner of tin mines, just as she has an in- terest in nently every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Her in- come was once estimated at £1,- 000,000 a year, making her by for the richest monarch of Europe.

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

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one would be held before the meeting of a Peace Conference.

A challenge to Americans-and

the answer

It's your

war, too

By RICHARD GREVILLE

America?

--but

What's it about?

FILL CALHOUN

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An American Journalist in London'

A general election followed the Armistice of 1918 and preceded "COME off it, Uncle Sam!" permanently safe against the assaults the Peace Conference at Ver-Englishmen are saying to-day, lieve that

That is what millions of of Nazism? Does he serlously be

triumphant Fuchrer Tall Englishmen and the 2_word_All_is_used_ndvisedly sailles

though-they-may-be-too-polite would-keep-his-eyes-permanently Replacement of the present their local public-house.

to say it more publicly than in averted from the wealth of the United the present war may be a States 130,000,000 people, and the great crusade. Britain may be of South sacrificing her men, her wealth British Government by a Labour We. Uncle Sam's cousins, are vasi untapped resources Government may be unlikely, 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 but it is at least a possibility, our allies, we are fighting for this struggle with us up to the neck-return to sanity and men may Thus it is a matter of more than 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.

Or again, Britain may be caught, in academic interest to ask what breath of the American political United States in 1938, when hardly a

in die land wasn't laying Inio; would happen to the peace if the

Mr. Chamberlain for his failure to debacle as the result of her own stand up to aggression before Munich., her own greed and her com- making of it were entrusted to paper in the United States dare with her placency.

of American The United States would like to perpetual hopefulness or

leaders of the Labour Party.

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

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

tradition.

Not a politician, not a news

whisper a doubt that our cause is good, or that the world might well be lost if it were defeated.

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know which is the true situation.

there is a great body of American public opinion that is yet to be con- vinced that England is without a share gullt for the outcome of the Jost twenty years of European diplomacy. to do? Rush over great shiploads of What do you want the United States

there is no room for them on the troops and have them sent off to india to combat passive resistance because Maginot Line?

Are we to become embrolled by sending men and arms to Finland when there are still signs and hopes in England of calling off the war with Germany and turning all the various war machines on Russla

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

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in her troubles, To-day, with-Americans cheering Arc those the wings of Nazi us on in a battle they admit to be bombers overhead, or the wings of theirs too, I think that crack might "Pigeons coming home to roost"? be turned round. For are not the

We admit that some American ideas really States

saying to-day:

America does not like Herr Hilller. President Roosevelt can hardly America Expects Every Briton To As a nation we sympathise with the of isolationism may sound peculiar to

on International Do His Duty"?

Empire-minded people. But isolu- mouth open his

English. But we abhor war, and tionism has deep roots in America, affairs without pronouncing a con- demnation of Nazi methods which in forthrightness rivals those of our own statesmen.

So what? So America's pubile men, having assented with one accord on the necessity of our winning, go on with equal fervour to 'declare: "No getting into this nasly mess for Us!"

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

had and editors

been eloquent on the wrongs of the Finns, and their desperate need for aid in their fight for independence.

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 to Finland, which was, specifically be formed around the nucleus not to be used for buying arms And provided by war-time co-opera started among the 500 odd Senators Immediately a tearing hullaballoo

tion of Britain and France, that and Representatives; "No, this will it should have collective never do. It would imperil our pres

cious neutrality!"

Really, come off it, Uucle. Sam!

authority transcending the sovereign rights of separate States, and must control military and economic power to enforce peaceful behaviour as between States intervenilon on our side would

We do not doubt of our winning our war for you, in the end. But we do not doubt either that United

its members and secure arma- the ordeal before us. For that mat- halve the sacrifices, and the length of

ment reduction,

ier.

effective United Slates interven- back in August might have ever starting..

tion

It is clear that in all major stopped the war from questions relating to the war and Now, of course, George Washington its aims there are not two down the doctrine of American isola- who was a good and great man, "Isid Britains with whom friends and quarreis. But the world has grown a tion from Europe's intrigues and enomies have to deal, but one good deal amiglier inco George Washington's salling-ship, harno-and- only. A change of Government boggy days. would produce no change of British front,

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But if Germany were to win tils i struggle does any Intelligent American really imagine that he could rematni

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

PHLOGOPIV

clam

"Why ain't you on the field?! Tryin' to take unfair advantage of the scholarship wo gave you, eh?"

It has grown from out of history books and the disillusionment of the lust war. It is bound up with intangibles such as the love of one's own posser- slons,

The British know about this. In that really the reason England is nt

war?

A threat, to England's cherished possessions and Institutions reached: across the Channel became suddenly reul and frightening. It still takes o Jong arm to carry such a terror across the Atlantle. That is one obvious reason the United States is not at war,

If Britala fects her cause is just and that the United States should conic 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 tint we know what we are doing. and where we are heading. Vague talk of our plans for re-building n pleasant world is not enough ng- Burance for is that old and tragic. mistakes are not going to be re- peated.

It may not be good wir 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 a period when world politics and economy are Ilkely to undergo great and as yet unfathomable changes.

Americans have a healthy sceptics : Ism of anything that can be Inbelled European diplomacy, It is possible that America is hoping for the war, to toss up a few definito' clues to what Europe is, nghting for, instend! of against.

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