The serious development of events around Java and the imminent menace to our last
military stronghold, which is a most valuable base for an offensive against Japan, induces me to
make a most urgent appeal to you, my dear President, as an associate and great friend of my
country.
     That island where about 50 million people live, .y peoples and I are determined to defend
to the last. 
     I am fully convinced you will give all possible help, but I must emphasize that in this
moment immediate assistance is the only real one.
     I have been greatly heartened by the recent successful cooperation of our forces and I
thereby feel all the more convinced that, if such action could be repeated, the whole situation
might be changed.
 
               Wilhelmina