Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Acting Governor' General Hubertus J. van Mook brushed aside an Indonesian suggestion that the quarrel in Java be settled by the United Nations Organization. Governor Van Mook preferred "direct discussions" between The Netherlands and her rebellious colonials. He also put his trust in growing Anglo-Dutch strength...
...Indonesian extremists vainly assaulted the airfield at Batavia. At Ambarawa they laid down a barrage with captured Japanese 75s; the British retaliated with air strikes...
...Indonesian moderates, led by Premier Sutan Sjahrir, tried to curb the violence, announced their readiness to meet with the Dutch, "although we will stick to our claim to self-determination...
...wave of fresh recriminations spared only the Japanese, whom the British found to be "good troops." The Indonesians charged the Dutch with "burning our villages and murdering our people," and a British officer confirmed the report that Dutch and Amboinese troops had killed 60 Indonesian policemen in cold blood at the Batavia police station. The Dutch accused the British of refusing to let them land their own troops. The British listed 56 killed in three "atrocities," and said grimly: "The gloves...
Queen Wilhelmina, looking tired and strained, had a word for her seething Indonesian subjects last week. In her first speech from the throne in six years, she addressed them across the distant barricades. Promising-as she had promised before (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942)-partnership in a "Netherlands Commonwealth," she said: "Ideas of revenge do not possess us, nor does the establishment of colonial domination...