Word: indonesianness
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...Dutch continue to repudiate withdrawal from the Indonesian Republic, the United States may have to use the Marshall Plan as a weapon against them in Europe," Government Professor Rupert Emerson told the Massachusetts League of Women voters at their international relations conference in Agassiz Thursday morning, attended by many Radcliffe students...
Emerson presented his views on the Indonesian problem in a symposium on "U.S. Foreign Policy in the Far East." John K. Fairbank, professor of History, and Edwin O. Reischauer, of the Far Eastern Languages Department, summed up the Chinese situation and the Japanese occupation respectively...
...United States must work with the moderate nationalists now controlling the Indonesian Republic, Emerson asserted. "Should they fall, it may lead to a swing to the Communists as the only ones who can be successful...
...commander in Indonesia, Lieut. General S. H. Spoor, had told his troops to cease fire (except for "action against roaming groups and gangs or individuals who try to cause disturbances"). Pale, tired Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees flew to Batavia, to get Republicans to cooperate in a Dutch-sponsored Indonesian interim government. Queen Juliana promised Indonesia "order, prosperity, freedom, independence and sovereignty in a federal state...
Most vociferous anti-Dutch leader was Major General Sutomo, known as Bung (Comrade) Tomo to Indonesian radio listeners. A limpid-eyed, long-haired journalist, Bung Tomo turned guerrilla leader in 1945. He then vowed not to shave until the Dutch left Indonesia, but a year ago his beard got too much for him and he shaved. Sample of his radioratory: "Kill the Dutch, kill the British, cut throats, tear limb from limb, boil them...