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When the Japanese moved into North Borneo in January 1942, the British colony in Sandakan got its orders: "Meet the enemy, resist passively, do not cooperate. We cannot defend you. Goodbye!" Among the 80 men, women & children was Agnes Newton Keith, U.S. author whose Atlantic Monthly $5,000 prizewinning Land Below the Wind had made Borneo seem like a grim, if fascinating, place for so genteel a lady (TIME, Nov. 19, 1939). She had decided to stick it out with her two-year-old son and her British husband, who was North Borneo's Director of Agriculture. Three Came...
...they are believers, I must take leave to call the Dyaks of Borneo, and the natives of Nigeria and the Papuans also believers, for they believe, too, and most positively, in their demons, spooks, their grimacing medicine men, in the saving power of amulets, scarabs and other trinkets and taboos. . . . And who are the unbelievers? They are, among others, people who do not believe in survival after death, who do not believe in the resurrection of the body or in the infallibility of the Pope ... in the sacrificial and propitiating nature of the Mass. They are the unbelievers, the infidels...
...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...