The New Review April 1942

By the end of the February Java mas surrounded and layTHIS SIDE AND THAT 267 at the mercy of bold invaders (130 to 140 transports dumped 150 000 men in a few days all long the coast) ; the Dutch fleet had been badly crippled and reduced to impotence the Air Force was altogether insufficient to its task and the fate of the island was sealed with the first enemy landrng ; the Dutch Command showed [...] Whenever the history of Malaya comes to be written the name of Sir Malcolm Watson will be writ large in the list of those pioneers who toiled hard regardless of the danger to health in order to rid the land of the deadly scourge of malaria. [...] We may define the development of vertical combination as that by which all processes of production from the provision of the raw materials to the sale of the finished' products are under the control of one firm as the result of the combintion of a number of formerly independent firms. [...] This match of which the success is rated to increase in proportion only to the quality and quantity of snow and the degree of cold and frost and other concomitants of winter attending it is played by the dauntless `Invalids' as a warm demonstration and a protest against the encroachmknts of football on the summer. [...] LACK OF CO-OPERATION It is a welknown fact that Prohibition became a live issue with the advent of the Congress governments306 THE NEW REVIEW in the provinces and after the departure of the Congress governments from power there has been little assistance from Congressmen in the detection of Prohibition crimes or in the matter of propaganda.