Hubertus van Mook cried to Washington that the East-Indies needed reinforcements must come continuously now that the battle for the Indies had come to Java.

The voice was like a voice of doom. It was the voice of Dr. Hubertus Johannes van Mook, Lieutenant Governor General of The Netherlands East Indies:

It is not that dozens of battleships, scores of cruisers and thousands of planes are needed. . . . It is only a question…