AMERICA WARNED
POSSIBLE THREAT
INTERESTS IN PACIFIC
IF DUTCH ENTER WAR
ATTITUDE OF JAPAN
(Reed. Nov. 13, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Nov. 12.
Major George Fielding Eliot, in a copyright message to the New York Herald-Tribune, draws attention to the threat to British and United States interests in the Pacific inherent in the involvement of the Netherlands in the European war, which Japan might regard as an opportunity to seize the Netherlands East Indies, thus neutralising Singapore, surrounding the Philippines and threatening Australia and New Zealand from Asiatic penetration.
Major Eliot adds that clearly the results of a German attack on Holland would not be confined to the strategic situation on the Western Front. Certainly the United States should be most concerned regarding the possessions in the Netherlands West Indies and Guiana and would assuredly resist a German claim to them. She could not afford to permit German air and submarine bases in the Caribbean and South America.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 7
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158AMERICA WARNED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20093, 13 November 1939, Page 7
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