Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgium and The Netherlands, the total of men in arms was around 260,000, who might at best make up five combat divisions. Of these, 150,000 men were committed in Indonesia. Holland had two fighter squadrons (also in Indonesia), and Belgium had five...
Italy's old Count Carlo Sforza entered its wide spaces first, to plead the case for Italian trusteeship of her former African colonies. The Netherlands' Dr. Dirk U. Stikker talked to Secretary Acheson for two hours, and was pressed to come to terms with Indonesia's republicans. Britain's Foreign Secretary, heavy-footed Ernest Bevin, and France's wispy Robert Schuman met with Acheson and agreed with unexpected rapidity that a Western German government must be set up promptly, a decision that had been stalled for months in lower-level talks...
...help had not resolved Holland's overseas mercantile problem-how to restore trade with Indonesia and her once lucrative transoceanic shipping in general. But ECA's pressure had helped bring about one solid achievement long dreamed by the Dutch: economic union with their Benelux neighbors, the Belgians and Lux-embourgers...
...come to my attention that the CRIMSON on March 14 reported me as having said at the Liberal Union meeting the night before that "the United States should not force Holland to set Indonesia free because that colony provides many commodities vital to European recovery...
...decision which the United States could not properly take unilaterally; that such a step could be taken only with the consent of the Marshall Plan countries, relying upon Dutch contributions to general European recovery and numbering among themselves several colonial powers, would favor this action. The question of Indonesia providing commodities vital to European recovery was never mentioned; obviously Indonesia could provide such commodities whether or not it was under Dutch control. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38 Associate Professor of History