The Archive · 1941

Dutch Government Will

Not Move to N.E.! Batavia, Mor, 24

Mr. J. H. Rotman, spokesman for the government, emphatically denied at today's. press conference rumours that the forthcoming visit to be made to the Netherlands East Indies by the Foreign Minister, M. B..N. van Klof~ feng meant that the Dutch govern ment in London was planning to remove to the Netherlands East Indies, The spokesman disclosed that_ would go to Mania to meet the For~ eign Minister who is expected arrive here on Saturday.

Questioned regarding the effect the visit of the Foreign Minister would have on the present Japanese-Bust Indies conversations, Inv. Ritman declared that it is a "lucky coincidence that both the Japanese and Dutch have eminent statesmen in Batavia'

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