New York, Mar. 11
Confereness here between Govern ment officials and two Dutch Minis: ters may encompass the whole field of Pacific defence cooperation. informed sources here said yesterday.
Government leaders, however, were reluctant to comment on forthcoming conferences with the Dutch Ministers, Mr. E. N. Van Kleffens, Foreign Minister of the Netherlands Govern ment in London, and Mr. Mr. Charles Jin Welter, Minister of Colonies, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, declined to comment on the visit of the two Ministers to Washington and said he was not fully informed of the purpose of their mission.
Lesser oficiais and also Congres-siena sources said the Dutch talks may produce a clearer concept of the extent to which the Dutch may look to the United States to forestall Japanese moves in the South Pacific.
At same time, it was said, United States offi the to which colonial vere willing to resist the Japanese in the latter's moves toward the Netherlands Indies, as Mr. Van Kleffens is from London ihe clarify the entire picture of the Democracies may expect of each other if the Japanese should strike simultaneously with Chancellor Adolf Hitler's spring offensive.—United Press.
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