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Word: indonesia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Netherlands Beyond the Seas includes Curacao, in the Caribbean; Surinam (formerly Dutch Guiana), in South America, and most important of all, the archipelago officially called The Netherlands Indies, known to the native inhabitants as Indonesia, called by old mariners simply The Indies. These islands, home of orangutans, Komodo dragons, hornbills and headhunters, producer of pearls, spices, rare woods, stretches 1,300 miles from North to South, 3,000 from East to West and are inhabited by 60,000,000 brown-bodied souls, not counting some 1,500,000 Asiatics and Europeans. Queen Wilhelmina has never visited her Eastern Empire (although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...compliments to TIME for the excellent article: "I Will Maintain!" (p. 17, Aug. 12), giving readers detailed information about The Netherlands' economics and its wealthy and shrewd queen; the noted statesman Colijn; the possessions in Indonesia which Japan covets; and "The White Front." All very interesting, particularly to those readers who follow foreign events closely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1935 | 9/2/1935 | See Source »

...Billiton, New Guinea, Madura, Lombok, the Riouw Lingga and Molukken Islands, with Japan and The Netherlands tied for second place at 26%. Since then Japan has seized the lion's share of 76%, while England and The Netherlands have been reduced to a mere 7% each. Lumping all Indonesia's imports together, Japan's share has swelled from 10% to 31%, while that of The Netherlands slumped from 20% to 12%. And such Japanese gains are but half the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: I Will Maintain! | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...fallen, it has sanely cut expenses to balance its budget. Out went most of the money for higher native schools. This has sent Indonesian youths rushing in droves to get their higher education in Japan, where they are told that Wilhelmina is a wicked old white millionairess and that Indonesia under Japanese rule would have to pay only a fraction of its present crushing, budget-balancing taxes. Even better, many Indonesians are now figuring out for themselves, would be self-rule. They babble ineffectually about "Indonesia for the Indonesians!" But native discontent is grim, real, threatening, and it springs from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: I Will Maintain! | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...guilder should go the way of the yen, pound and dollar, it is certain that Indonesia would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: I Will Maintain! | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

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