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The

to

say to Japan

Japan than the Dutch.

bours.

VAN KLEFFENS

"There has been but.

No

JO nation is more vitally was the telephone at his bed-restraint in her dealings one great European Power," concerned in the south-side which gave the Dutch with other Powers, and says. Dr Van Kleffens, ward expansion policy of Government the first news there is no reason as far as "which for eighty years has that the invasion had begun, we are concerned to cause

been potentially or effective. and that at the same time

ly aggressive. That Power Belgium was being attacked, any change in that attitude. is Germany."

"But we have had occasion: He has himself recorded,

The Dutch East Indies, a vast and rich colonial em- pire, lie across the path of When it became clear that Japan's march to the_tro- Dutch resistance to the Ger- to make it clear that we will with transparent honesty pical sun. Indo-China, Thai- mans, however stubborn, never recognise Japan or and indignation, in his mov- land, and the Dutch East could not prevent the coun- any other Power as a domin- ing books, "The Rape of the Indies have been specifically try from being over-run, Dr ant or paramount nation in Netherlands," the successive mentioned by Japanese Gov-Van Kleffens and one of his our domains. If we are stages of Nazi blackmail, ernment spokesmen as in-Cabinet colleagues flew in a

bluff, deceit, and finally un- attacked, if any attempt. cluded within the New Order seaplane to England, and

masked invasion and be- of which Japan is recognised established direct contact were made to include the trayal of the peaceful Dutch. as the leader under the with the Allied Govern- Netherlands East Indies in Three-Power Pact,

a New Order, we should re- proached to his countrymen,

ments.

At Camranh Bay and Hai- Now, from the headquar- sist to the utmost. · phong in Indo-China, and on ters of the Dutch Govern- the large island of Hainan, ment in London, he directs

would

consider

But why, it has often been re-.

why, since you knew the danger, since you feared and disliked the "And if we were threaten- Nazi regime, since you loved and sympathised with England and France, did you not join. us before it was

invasion had started before call- territories overseas, a large

ing on us for aid? Why delay:

merchant fleet, a number of

"The maintenance of the so long in communicating to us your military secrets, in making And the latest Japanese modern cruisers, a consider status quo in the East Indies it possible for us to co-operate request to the East Indies is able force of smaller vessels is not merely a question of with you against Germany? reported to be that they and ocean-going submarines, rubber and tin for the should be allowed to explore the outer ring of islands in

the Japanese are installing the foreign policy of a nation ed, it is possible that other democracy themselves in strategic which has temporarily lost Powers points from which they may its liberty in Europe, but is themselves equally threa- too late? Why wait until the hope to attack Singapore in complete command of vast tened, and the East Indies.

Hongkong Telegraph. the vast archipelago, that

Saturday, April 26, 1941. Wyndliam St., Hongkong Telephone: 26815.

THE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" i used by the flobgkong Telegraph to Indicate iews which is strictly copyright under the provisions of the Telecommuni- cations Ordinance, 1915. Buch news bears the indication "UI" in received in the United Press Associations, who re-

they shall have the right to establish an air transport line between Japan and the Indies, and shall be granted mining and fishing conces- sions.

GEORGE SLOCOMBE

interviews the Dutch Foreign Minister

The answer is, I am told, that it could have made no difference to the German invasion of Hol- land In the long run.

Few Defences

If the Allied frontier had run from Switzerland through. Lon- gwy (the end of the Maginot Line) along the Belgo-German frontier and the Dutch-German

To this policy of gradual and a highly efficient air United States. It is the frontier to the North Sen, in- Hongkong on the date of publication by encroachment and penetra-force.

serve all rights and forbid republications, tion the Dutch Government. The Dutch have no quarrel graphy of Eastern Asia.

alther wholly or in part without previous in London. have replied by

arrangement.

along the Dutch-German fron-

stead of along the Franco- position of the Dutch East Belgian frontier to the English Indies in the political geo- Channel, the result would have been to extend considerably the an emphatic Note.

with Japan. Dr Van Klef-

frontier to be defended against THE ATLANTIC HIGHWAY

fens told me that his country. "The Indies stand at the Germany, without increasing its "We reject any sugges-had enjoyed, since 1605, over crossroads of Southern Asia strength. NOW that the United States of tion," said Dr Van Kleffens three centuries of uninter- and the Pacific. Not only Ammerlen is settling down to manu-

There are few natural de- facturing war materiais on a grand to me in a long talk, "that rupted and peaceful rela- the great east-west lines of fences along the Belgian fron-> scale, the question of transportation the Netherlands East Indies tions with the Japanese. gcross the Atlante grows eorres-

communication pass through tier with Germany, and none pondingly urgent. The United States can be included in any New Is unwilling to undertake this work Order in Eastern Asia, lieving," he added, "that lines north-south. If Japan low the surface in any part of "We have difficulty in be- the Indies, but also the great tier. If you dig a few feet be- as being an act of war, although either under the aegis of Japan has any intention of held the East Indies, com- Holland you come to water. The President Roosevelt has stated that Japan

with the United States merchantmen

attempting to change the

China, only be protected wherever they go, so long as they do not enter the combat

status quo in the Indies, with the Pacific, with Aus- possible would have been a con- tinuous line of concrete posi- tralia would be threatened. tions sunk deeply in the ground, zones proclaimed under the Neu-

which the Great Powers Flew To England trality Act.

pledged themselves to ob- Singapore would be in dan- and no such continuous line, and perhaps even over hundreds of miles of ter- Dr Van Kleffens is Queen serve in the Washington ger, Wilhelmina's Minister of Treaty of 1922.

Burma and India.

us such an act might be construed

will

nation."

of

any

other

The question of convoy' is on urgent one, as Britain is plainly not In a position to provide the number of vessels required for such a pur- pose. At the same time, as one American commentator puts it, "It Nazis invaded Holland it always shown wisdom and

faced

is useless to manufacture goods un- less we can guarantee their safe de livery." President Roosevelt

with serious problem. He has never falled to seize every opportuni- ly to express his sympathy for the

failed democracies, nor hes he

to show his readiness to give Britain in her long fight for freedom all the aid his

power. But Pre- sident Roosevelt must act cautiously. He has shown throughout his pre- sidency that he will not go

step brucicy that

further than public opinion permits. At the moment there is undeniably a certain amount of fear in

war

Foreign Affairs. When the

"In the past Japan has

Strong Philippines

Air Force Desired

gramme.

Sison recommends the follow-

munications

Not Alarmed

conceivable

fortification

ritory, has ever been attempted.

Even then, the fallure of the strongest fortification to resist determined and audacious attack

But the Dutch are not yet has been shown during the past disposed to view the south- year. And if the French and British armies. were hardly ward expansion policy of the

adequate in numbers to defend Japanese Government with the Maginot Line, how could alarm. They are a nation they, even when reinforced by of realists. They recognise the Dutch and the Belgians, much of recent Japanese have undertaken the defence, of the immensely longer frontier utterances as of German from Longwy to the Hellgoland MANILA, April 26 (UP).—Secretary of National Defence Teofilo Sison is urging creation of a Philippine air force "suf-inspiration. Hitler needs a Bight? ficiently strong to command the respect of neighbouring coun- diversion in the Far East to various

tries," and has asked President Quezon and the National As-scare the United States out

A Future Problem circles

fostered, if not sponsored by pro-Nazi elements.

sembly to authorise funds for gradual expansion of the pro- of releasing destroyers to that should the United States "guarantee their safe

If at the outbreak of war Bel- delivery" the transportation of

Britain and denuding her gium and Holland had joined the Establishment of a centrali supplies to Britain

ritain by

American ing steps as the basis for the national airport in Manila;

Pacific/defences in order to Allies at once against Germany, In a recent article dealing with programme

Complete Filipinisation of the relieve the British Navy of they would have been attacked problem and urging a rapid Expansion of the Philippine Bureau of Coast and Geodetic some of its enormous burden and overrun long before a British solution, the "New York Post" took Army air corps and offshore Survey and acquisition of one in the Atlantic.

expeditionary force had been the view that the possibility of war patrol;

landed in the Low Countries. the United States and

survey ship.

It was the Dutch sense of And events have shown that the Sison declared recently that political realism that made and France, eight months after combined air force of Britain Sending of Filipino alonados abroad, to take special veloped

pen- civil aviation should be de-them abandon the League of the outbreak of war,

simultaneously courses in aeronautics;

was in- with military aviation in order to Nations' illusion of collective adequate to establish the aerial Consolidation of Philippine make available resources of re-security when they saw that supremacy. "over the battlefield war for many months, more than he commercial airline services and serve material, including planes, the League had broken down which alone might have checked. usually requires." This being the their operation under govern engines, pilots and mechanica over Manchuria and Abyssions. case, it can then be argued that ment supervision or control; Hitler does not desire to be at wor

for national defence. with the United States at

ressels might lead to war.

the

between

Government aid for training

Germany did not in any way hinge on the question of transporting war of civilian pilots; materials. The newspaper declared that "Hitler will decide if and when America comes Into the war. The decision is his. He has had suf- ficient pretext for a declaration of

stage

Reserve Resources-

Doploring the lack of Filipino sinia. It was the same feel-

the German mechanised divi-

"Neutrality," says Dr Van

way buse which would shorten the civilian pilots which he attri-ing that made them return Kleffens, "was far from being though he would undoubtedly be highly delighted if Japan could be distance under British convoy. That buted to the high cost of train to their old attitude of an ideal solution." It has not forced or passwaded America in

to take the fact alone would help. Britain: both ing and the comparative new-neutrality a voluntary neu- saved Holland and Belgium. iniuntivo and

by chabling her to economise on her the Pacific. Such an act would re- own merchant shipping and by per-ness of neronatics in the Philip-

mitting her to place some of her pines, Sison urged that a civilian trality, and one which could But neither would intervention warships which are now protecting pilot training programme be be abandoned at any time, is to find some new policy for have saved them. The problem large

convoys, in other car.

started immediately. Because not an enforced neutrality the future. Neither Belgium is. adopted, Germany's efforts to win of the limited supply of highly like that imposed by inter nor Holland, I have been as- the Battle of the Atlantic are doomed specialised technical men, ho ro- national statute on Belgium aured by their representatives, to failure because no human power commended that selected Fill before 1914. can make two nations as stubborn as pinos be sent abroad to study

can return to a policy of pure Britain and the United States alocken radio and plane engineering and

The Dutch know, and mis- voluntary, or compulsory. and undiluted neutrality, either

duco the effectiveness of United States aid to Britain. The nows- paper concludes with a warning that Hitler "will force America to fight when he thinks he can beat her, but not before"

Many suggestions as to the best method of ensuing safe delivery of war material have been put forward. the most feasible probably being the proposal to use Greenland as a half-.

theatres of conflict. Whatever

their hold on their most vital fo line.

construction.

trusted, their German neigh- Events have changed all that.