Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indonesian Republicans made their first contact with an American diplomatic representative yesterday, to take advantage of an earlier U.S. offer to arbitrate the conflict in the Dutch colonial possessions...
...separate governments at present but also two different currencies, two different codes of export-import regulations, two different exchange control administrations. One thing that both sides agreed on, so far as TIME was concerned, was that they wanted their copies of TIME. The problem of supplying the Dutch and Indonesians living in areas under Dutch administration was simple, requiring only the signing of contracts with the Netherlands East Indies government and with a commercial distributor. Although copies of TIME were already moving across the military perimeter into Indonesian territory (where they sold at $3.50 a copy), arrangements were also made...
...Indonesian mess was almost providential in its timing. Joyfully, the Security Council dropped the Greek situation to cope with a situation cut more to the U.N. size. With unprecedented speed the Council voted (8-0) a stern resolution: the Council "calls upon" The Netherlands and the Indonesian Republic "to cease hostilities forthwith." It further called upon the combatants to settle their disputes by arbitration...
...discussion was coolly legalistic, for there was some question whether U.N. had any right to interfere in the Indonesian dispute. Britain, France and Belgium, all colonial powers, had listened sympathetically to The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens: he argued that the Indonesian trouble was a domestic quarrel in the Dutch household, that the Indonesian Republic will not be an independent government until Jan. 1, 1949, The neighbors, said Van Kleffens, had no business to butt...
...history, the Security Council could not reach a decision yesterday and will try again today to answer Australia's demand to stop war in Indonesia, and Greek "aggression" charges against Albania, Yugoslavia, and Bulgaria. The Dutch, who, with American-made weapons, were gobbling up huge chunks of the Indonesian Republic yesterday, prevented a vote to stop hostilities by claiming that the U.N. charter "was not applicable...