Anglo-Dutch Declaration of Unity

From Byzantium and the Hellespont to the quays of Hong Kong, an Iron Curtain has descended across the continent. Behind that line lie all the the capitals of the ancient states of northern Asia. Peking, Samarkand, Constantinople, Tokyo, Kabul, Tehran, Baghdad, Jerusalem, and Damascus; all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.

In a great number of countries, far from the Russian frontiers and throughout the world, Communist fifth columns are established and work in complete unity and absolute obedience to the directions they receive from the Communist center.The safety of Asia requires a unity from Briton and Dutchman alike in which neither must be made outcast or defenseless by the other.If the population of the British Empire be added to that of the Dutch, with all that such cooperation implies in the air, on the sea, all over Asia, and in science and in industry, and in moral force, there will be an overwhelming assurance of security and hope for eventual triumph over the dark forces of Communism and Fascism which our foes propagate.