BITTER COMMENT
ON BROADCAST BY SIR S. CRIPPS NO REFERENCE TO DUTCH INDIES. ASTONISHMENT AND ANGER IN BANDOENG. BANDOENG, March 5. Sir Stafford Cripps’s omission of any reference to the Netherlands Indies in his oroadcast has caused astonishment in Bandoeng. General public comment is bitter that in the very hour in which the Dutch and Allied troops are fighting stubbornly to stern the Japanese advance before it reaches Australian shores, a leading British statesman, summing up Britain’s allies, considers it superfluous even to mention Java as if voicing the opinion that the Java battle is already lost and an issue about which it is better not to talk. Sir Stafford Cripps’s broadcast was directed to the people of Australia and New Zealand, on the subject of their preparation against possible invasion. His reference to allies was: “Britain has mighty allies at her side. This alliance of peoples today is battling with forces of evil from one end of the world to the other, and it cannot be defeated unless it allows faint-hearted people to sap its strength.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 3
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177BITTER COMMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 March 1942, Page 3
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