WEALTH OF INDIES
BUILT UP BY DUTCH
RUGBY. February 22
A Dutchman, broadcasting from London today, said that the whole Dutch, colonial policy had been to make the East Indies rich "not only for ourselves, but just as much for the Indonesians."
He stated: "When oil and power stations, storage tanks, and ( docks were completely destroyed Dutch and Indonesians alike saw their whole livelihood completely - : gone. Palembang can be compared to the Dneiper Dam which the Russians destroyed. A few weeks have seen the destruction of centuries of endeavour."
The broadcaster recalled how tea, coffee, tobacco, cocoa, rubber, and sugar plants had been brought to Java and Sumatra from far and wide by the Dutch colonists.
"The petroleum and tin might not have been found or not won from the earth in such abundance without the enterprise, technical skill, and energy of the white man," he said.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 5
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