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Little & Big

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The Dutch want to rely rather on own “direct discussions” between The Netherlands and her rebellious colonials than the quarrel in Java be settled by the United Nations Organization.

At San Francisco last spring, Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco van Kleffens chided the big powers for preferring “to rely on their own strength rather than upon world government.” In Java last week the little power acted precisely like a big power.

Acting Governor’ General Hubertus J. van Mook brushed aside…

Trouble in the Indies

The white man had reoccupied Java, richest and most densely populated of the East Indies, with such weak forces that he had been forced to call on armed Japs for police help.

The white man had reoccupied Java, richest and most densely populated of the East Indies, with such weak forces that he had been forced to call on armed Japs for police help. Now Dutchmen, Eurasians and Japs were being killed in skirmishes all over the island. Hardly any of it…

Giants in Those Days

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A Java geologist, Dr. R. von Koenigswald of The Netherlands Indies Geological Survey, had dug up bones of prehistoric men bigger than the largest known apes.

There were giants in the earth in those days.—Genesis, VI, 4.

Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape and a monkey in size. But last week evidence was offered to prove Genesis correct. A Java…

There were giants in the earth in those days.—Genesis, VI, 4.

Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape and a monkey in size. But last week evidence was offered to prove Genesis correct. A Java…

Home Is The Sailor

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One of the decisive sea battles of history was fought last week, the naval battle for Java. A battle, lost before it began, for the last bulwark against Japanese conquest of the Indies.

Admiral Helfrich on the cover of TIME magazine in 1942 One of the decisive sea battles of history was fought last week in the placid waters between Java and Borneo. It was the naval battle for Java. It was a battle for the last bulwark against Japanese conquest of the Indies, a battle for the Southwest Pacific, a battle for… View large cover

 
 
 

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