Japan is on warpath. The exiled Government of The Netherlands learned from Batavia that Japan had served new demands on the East Indies. The Dutch refused.

Japan’s grave-faced Emperor Hirohito last week wrapped himself in a silken robe embroidered with the sacred Paulownia blossom and stepped into the innermost sanctuary of the Imperial Palace to worship his mythological ancestress, the Sun Goddess, celebrating the ascension to the throne 2,601 years ago of his lineal ancestor, the…

U.S. bankers are troubled with what happens to the frozen assets of countries at war. Most concern the Dutch, who have around $700m. of dollar assets in the U. S.

The world’s biggest bank. Chase National of N. Y., last week was embarked upon an attempt to solve U. S. bankers’ most annoying headache: who controls the U. S. funds of Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Belgian, Latvian and other Russian and Nazi victims? The assets of ten such countries have already…

Dutch churches have been centres of opposition to the Reich. Pastors and churchmen have been thrown into concentrationcamps.

Twice last week the Christian Cross was raised in captive Europe to defy the will of the conquering Nazis.

In Norway the seven bishops of the Norwegian Lutheran Church, in a letter to the State’s Councilor, issued the boldest public indictment yet launched against the Nazi “new order.” Timed with…