Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British out of Palestine and Indonesia...
...about people who live in glass houses, the men of good will of the Western world have, in the year since V-J, functioned not as critics, but as interpreters of the developing foreign policy of the Soviet Union. American and British unilateral action in the Pacific and in Indonesia effectively prevented a liberal alignment with those elements who were beating the drum over Russian unilateral action in Poland, Rumania, Bulgaria, and Hungary. The knowledge that British troops were garrisoned in Greece, that American units were still stationed in Iceland, likewise silenced criticism of the presence of Russian forces...
...assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
Swinging to a broader condemnation he spoke next of tragic circumvention of the Atlantic Charter in China, Indonesia, India and in Siam. He summed up his condemnation of international failure in the Far East "we cannot, with any conscience, continue to prevent others from taking the very steps which we ourselves have taken. Placing the responsibility for what is happening is a minor problem. It lies perhaps with individuals, with school curricula that have almost wholly disregarded the Far East, or perhaps with a press that has failed to provide an objective basis for intelligent opinion on foreign policy...
...Representative Democratic Council under elder statesman Syngman Rhee, protested heatedly, berated both the U.S. and Russia. But leftists, gathered under Communist domination in the Democratic People's Front, espoused trusteeship and opposed immediate independence, although Communists all over the world were yipping for the freedom of India and Indonesia...