Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a Western nation won a quick, clean-cut victory in Asia. The Dutch had grasped the nettle. At Jogjakarta, where the square rock still stands, they had seized the top Indonesian Nationalist leaders (TIME, Dec. 27). In ten days after their attack, they had captured every major city of Republican Java...
...Dutch had promised an Indonesian federation, with sovereignty and equal partnership in a Dutch commonwealth, but they could not agree with the tough little republic on the necessary interim arrangements or on the final blueprint. Last month, in a final effort to break the knot, a mission from The Hague under Foreign Minister Derek Stikker journeyed to Batavia. The Dutch claimed that the republic was waging a disruptive campaign of kidnaping, murder and arson. The republicans claimed that The Netherlands was trying to set up "puppet states" in some areas of Java and Sumatra which the Dutch had seized from...
...been trying to negotiate a settlement, Stikker broke off the parley and took his team back to The Hague. There, in an oak-paneled room of the Ministry of Justice, the cabinet held many grave and sharply divided sessions. A royal decree was promulgated, setting up a provisional Indonesian federation which did not include the republic. Everyone knew that the decree could not be enforced without military action. The Socialists were opposed to fighting (the royal family was said to be against it also); but the war party, led by War Minister Willem F. Schokking...
Latest result of the Calcutta conference has been Moscow-trained Muso Suparto's proclamation of an Indonesian "People's Republic" and his seizure of Madiun, Java's third city. Production of Indonesia's rubber, tin and oil and their distribution throughout the world was the basis of Holland's prewar prosperity. If the Communists succeed and choke off revival of this trade, it will take more than Marshall Plan aid to keep The Netherlands afloat...
...trying to carry out the Calcutta plan by stepping into a power vacuum created by the deadlock between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Muso made his intent fairly clear. In a speech in Madiun ten days before seizing the city, he declared: "For three years our government has licked the boots of the Americans, with the result that the Americans are still supporting the Dutch . . . Up to this moment this policy continues. We have got to fight...