MERICA'S stake in the Netherlands East Indies whose future fate the entire world is watching since the conquest of Holland by Nazi Germany, has been an ever-growing one for years past, according to the Institute of Pacific Relations.
A complete survey of American interests there recently completed by the Institute reveals that as a source of vital raw materials for the Uniter States, the Netherlands Indies has worked up from fifteenth place in 1933 to eight place in 1938 and seventh place in 1939.
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