Word: indonesianness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
BATAVIA, Java, July 22--Netherlands planes blasted Indonesian airfields in Java and Sumatra today, and President Soekarno of the Indonesian Republic said Dutch military might was attacking by land...
...Doctrine was concerned with U.S. opportunities, there were plenty of places to begin. Scandinavia had not sounded any alarm yet (though Russia has tied up Sweden's economy in a five-year trade treaty). The Dutch had not collapsed yet, though they faced a double calamity-loss of Indonesian trade and breakdown of business with Germany. Belgium was a highly bankable risk...
...first time in five years Batavia echoed to the burst of festive fireworks rather than lethal gunfire. Food parcels were distributed to the poor as the people prepared for a great selamatan (feast). Forgetting for once their mutual distrust, the city's rival Dutch and Indonesian mayors joined forces on the Palace balcony to scatter 1,000 kilograms of copper coins over the jubilant throngs below...
...never seen anything quite like the Inter-Asian Relations Conference. For the first time in history, Asians representing half the world's people came together under Asiatic sponsorship. The 200 delegates, from 30-odd countries and colonial territories, made an impressive spectacle. There were tiny, sloe-eyed Indonesian women in batiked lungis and husky Nepalese soldiers in rich blue brocade, bejeweled princesses, fez-topped Arabs, and lamas from Tibet in long crimson kimonos, their hair done in braids and their ears weighted with blue stone ornaments...
...Indies Dutch now realize that the old days will never come again. The Dutch at home are beginning to understand that Ir. Soekarno & Co. are attempting to engineer a complete break, economic as well as political. As a result Holland's earlier, more tolerant attitude toward Indonesian home rule is stiffening. But at best the Dutch faced a pretty grim prospect. Sardonic Hubertus van Mook put it this way: "There will be shooting for a long time in Indonesia, but we hope to get it on a friendlier basis...