The first Axis shells land on the soil of the Americas, carrying the war into the Caribbean.

One night this week Associated Press Photographer Herbert White was sound asleep on the little Dutch island of Aruba, just off the Venezuelan Coast. At 1:30 a.m. an explosion bowled him out of bed. Photographer White’s routine assignment, covering a routine inspection trip by the U.S. Army’s Lieut. General Frank…

Last week a Dutchman took command of the Dutch and U.S. Naval forces defending The Netherlands East Indies, named Admiral Helfrich.

Last week a Dutchman took command of the Dutch and U.S. Naval forces defending The Netherlands East Indies. Into the joint command vacated by the U.S. Navy’s warworn, 64-year-old Admiral Thomas Charles Hart stepped 55-year-old Vice Admiral Conrad Emil Lambert Helfrich.

Home to Sharon. The Navy Department said that…

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.

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

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…

TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod cabled from Melbourne an account of how the courageous Dutchmen of Java died fighting.

TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod last week cabled from Melbourne this account of how the Dutchmen of Java died fighting:

When the history of War II is written, that page belonging to the indomitable Dutch should be illuminated with the blood of heroes. For a thousand years free men should stand…

Queen Wilhelmina went shopping in little Lee, Mass. for ordinary and inexpensive groceries.

Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, visiting her daughter, Princess Juliana, went shopping in little Lee, Mass. “Good morning, Queen,” said the drugstore man. The ruler from the land where people scrub their homes with soap & water bought a sponge. “I am old-fashioned,” she explained. “Everybody else uses a washcloth,…

A new movie has been released called Tulips Shall Grow, where the Nazi Legions are awaiting an uncomfortable fate.

Tulips Shall Grow (Pak; Paramount) is Puppetoonist George Pal’s (TIME, March 9) prediction of the fate awaiting the armored Nazi legions which overran Holland. Ninth of his series of cartoon shorts (substituting carved puppets and miniature three-dimensional sets for the drawn figures and flat backgrounds of the usual animated…

Wilhelmina, residing in Lee, Mass. has impressed natives with her neighborliness. She went to New York to talk about the war.

Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau, age 61, the sturdy, solid, cheerful Queen of The Netherlands, has been living a quiet and well-regulated life with her daughter and grandchildren on a rented estate at Lee, Mass. There she has impressed the natives with her neighborliness. Once she climbed through…

Adolf Hitler could well agree with the Duke of Alba, Philip of Spain and Napoleon before him that all Dutchmen are stubborn. Evidence is given with events of the preceding week.

Not all Germans are bullheaded and overbearing. Not all Japanese are bucktoothed. Not all Italians pinch bottoms. But last week Adolf Hitler could well agree with the Duke of Alba, Philip of Spain and Napoleon before him that all Dutchmen are stubborn. The evidence:

>At least 80 Dutch patriots have…

A sponsored exhibition by Princess Juliana of 70 old Dutch masters is shown in Manhattan.

Sponsored by Princess Juliana of The Netherlands, the finest exhibition of old Dutch masters the U.S. has seen in a generation this week lured throngs of Manhattan gallery-goers to Fifth Avenue’s palatial Duveen Galleries. Purpose of the exhibition: to raise funds for Dutch refugees.

As an exhibition of great art,…

The Japanese reigned over the Netherlands East-Indies. Oil flowed towards Japan, and millions of Java schoolboys had to take Japanese language study and Nippon haircuts.

“It is difficult,” said the radio voice of Tokyo recently, “to tell you our objective in the south in simple words. I don’t know it myself.” Tokyo’s difficulty was suggested by news leaking out of Japan’s “Co-Prosperity Sphere”:

> The 550,000-acre Philippine sugar-cane industry, deprived of its U.S. market and…

Over London’s Radio Orange, Wilhelmina told that The NL., The NL. Indies, Curasao and Surinam, would form a commonwealth and all have independence at home after the war.

Mightier democracies continued pussyfooting on post-war plans, but last week the squareheaded Dutch went on record. Their good Queen Wilhelmina flatly rejected Empire, plunked for Commonwealth.

Over London’s Radio Orange, solid Dutch Democrat Wilhelmina told her people and the world:

>The Netherlands, The Netherlands Indies, Curasao and Surinam, after victory,…

After Queen Wilhelmina called for a free NL’s Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people, Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Mussert “Leader of The NL. people.”

One week after Queen Wilhelmina went on record for a free Netherlands Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people (TIME, Dec. 14), Adolf Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Anton Adrian Mussert “Leader of The Netherlands people.”

The new stooge-boss of The Netherlands is a frustrated little fellow who…

In Java jungles and in occupied Holland Dutchmen are awaiting the news of The Netherlands’ Crown Princess Juliana giving birth to her third child.

In Java jungles Dutch guerrillas waited last week for the news. In London Queen Wilhelmina and ministers of The Netherlands Government in Exile fidgeted. In Occupied Holland people kept watch in doorways while inside their homes forbidden radio sets were tuned to London. In “a little bit of Holland” in…

Underground tribunals sentenced 47 collaborationists to death. The NL. government in exile radioed instructions to stalwart Hollanders to resist the internment order by every possible means.

From conquered Europe came a spate of stories of sabotage and revolt. In themselves these acts did not threaten the Nazi regime, but they did demonstrate that Allied armies will not fight alone when Europe is invaded.

Yugoslavia. A German correspondent with Axis forces fighting against the Partisans wrote:

“Then…