POLICY OF ATTACK
URGED BY DR. VAN MOOK ALLIES SHOULD GO OUT ' & FIGHT. HOPE OF DEFENDING JAVA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 18. Dr. Van Mook, the Lieutenant Governor-General of the Netherlands East Indies, who is again visiting Australia, told Press representatives in Sydney today that he thought it a big mistake to think in terms of defence. The Allies should go out and fight the
enemy. He said that the Netherlands East Indies would fight as long as it was humanly possible. He was confident that Java would not fall easily. If it fell, he believed that the Japanese, instead of attacking Australia, would most likely swing westward to aid their Axis partners in the Middle East and in Russia. But Australia could depend on it that the Japanese would deal with them afterward.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1942, Page 3
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135POLICY OF ATTACK Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1942, Page 3
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