Timor Pawn Of The Pacific

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Yeah. Trim little bevel, isn't it? Don't pretend you don't know what I mean, Talbot. You Dutch can't monopolize all the shipping that comes into Tremo. That Japanese merchantman coming in there, and all the others that have been coming into the sport of dealing here lately, should give you Australians as much concern as it gives out

of their cutting in on you, Dutch. Not on us. Remember what I'm about to say now, Talbot, right? Those Japanese merchants and our avant-garde. The squadron of Japanese warships that will one day come to his island.

It will then be very late to reflect that Timor is only 400 miles from Australia. I knew he was right. Everyone in Australia knew it. What he said made me shiver. Adnan Cornelis Van Baskirk a long time, made him from time to time at economic meetings concerning the Netherlands in these in Australia.

I thought many times of what he said that day back in 1934, as we stood there on the waterfront of the Port of Dilly and watched that Japanese merchantman come in. But even though I knew the danger, I didn't dream of what would happen to him and me on that island of Timor in the next few years.