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...Robert Christison Aberdeen, Scotland 60th Anniversary
Meanwhile, John Bull dandled the unwanted Indonesian baby on his lap, alternately caressing and cuffing it. On the soft side, Britain's Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison attended an Indonesian art show with Premier Sjahrir (the Premier's eye was blackened from a beating administered by Dutch troops); British and Indonesian teams played a soccer match (scoreless tie). In sterner mood, the British skirmished with Indonesian guerrillas, and jailed as "undesirables" a good many members of Premier Sjahrir's Peace Preservation Corps; showing no favoritism, they also cracked down on trigger-happy Netherlands forces, sending back...
...Batavia last week "moderate" Premier Sjahrir agreed to cooperate with British Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison in curbing "extremists," rounding up Japanese remnants, and evacuating Europeans who had been interned by the Japs...
...bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious...
Soekarno blandly deplored the outbreaks. But they went right on after General Christison angrily warned him to stop them. The Dutch landed 1,000 troops, hoped shortly to get 35,000 into the islands. Meantime, on Java, the flag of The Netherlands flew between protecting British and U.S. flags...