Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pact recognizes Sumatra, Java and little Madura as the Republic of Indonesia, whose degree of independence will be great, but is deliberately left vague. Borneo and the Great East (see map) will be left under Dutch control. Both the Dutch and the Indonesian nationalists agree to work toward a federation which would bring the whole Netherlands East Indies into a future United States of Indonesia, a sort of Dominion under the Dutch Crown. Further negotiations to clarify the pact are expected. Meanwhile, the Indonesians think that events are moving too slowly toward independence, and the Dutch think they are going...
...equal partner with The Netherlands under the House of Orange, was born in Batavia last week. Dutch and Indonesian representatives initialed a draft agreement providing for a three-way division of The Netherlands East Indies: first, the Indonesian Republic, comprising the islands of Java, Sumatra and Madura; second, Borneo; third, "The Great East," made up of Bali, the Celebes, the Moluccas, Dutch New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands. These three autonomous areas would be linked as equal partners in the United States of Indonesia, and within two years the U.S.I. would be rated a sovereign power under Queen Wilhelmina...
Land & People. The 7,083 islands of Manuel Roxas' steaming land are part of the off-Asia continental shelf, running 1,120 miles from Chinese Formosa in the north to British and Dutch Borneo in the south. Two seasons (wet and dry) make the islands fertile and the climate debilitating; typhoons, snakes and the islands' strategic position make them dangerous. The brown and purple mountains, the beaches like white teeth, the magic water, the hectic sunsets, and above all, the deep, hushed, lusting green of the jungle make it a lotos-land-except to politicians...
...procrastinating shopper on Christmas Eve, he finally hit on the idea of bringing her a human head. His beloved tenderly declared that this was indeed a gift worthy of a Dyak maiden's heart, and consented to be his bride. Ever since then, the men of Borneo have been passionate headhunters...
When the Japs occupied North Borneo during the war, the natives remained fiercely loyal to the British, who had brought them these blessings. Some of the Company's officers were interned in a leper colony by the Japs. One day, a group of loyalist lepers came up to the Company's Governor to ask if they could bump off some other lepers (who had collaborated with the Japs) when & if the Company's rule was restored after the war. Asked the Governor: "Why don't you do it now?" Replied one of the lepers: "The Japs...