DUTCH EAST INDIES
WOULD BRITAIN GIVE AID?
(Rec. 1 p.m.) SINGAPORE, Sept. 25
Dutch opinion is unanimous that the time has arrived when Mr. Winston Churchill should make a full and positive statement on relations between Britain and the Netherlands East Indies.
The Batavia "Nieuwsblad" directs attention to the fact that both Mr. Duff Cooper and Air Chief Marshal Sir R. Brooke-Popham b^ave evaded questions on why no complete alliance exists. The newspaper says there must be some reason for Britain's aversion from any alliance, and for the very careful, and for the most part negative, utterances of Mr. Duff Cooper and Air Chief Marshal Sir R. BrookePopham. i
The only solution is that Britain has to take into account the circumstances in which British assistance would not be absolutely assured beforehand, says the newspaper, otherwise why this caution? ' Informed sources say that the silence is causing undesirable misunderstanding and uneasiness among the peoples of the Netherlands East Indies and of China and the United States.
Speculation is rife as to whether Canberra will urge Mr. Churchill to make an early statement and clear away present doubts,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 76, 26 September 1941, Page 6
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187DUTCH EAST INDIES Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 76, 26 September 1941, Page 6
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