Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Briefing State Department correspondents last week on the Indonesian crisis, Press Officer Lincoln White took extraordinary pains to praise the work of U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia John M. Allison, 52. Behind-the-scenes reason: Old Far East Hand Allison had already written out his resignation in protest against a series of United Press stories from Washington saying that his reporting on the Indonesian crisis (see FOREIGN NEWS) was inadequate. Allison's Washington friends suspected that Allison's Washington rivals were planting the stories to undercut him. To buoy him up, Secretary of State Dulles cabled Allison a personal...
Each day brought reports of new seizures of Dutch properties. Thirty Dutch-owned steamships were seized in Indonesian waters. Dutch property transfers were placed under stringent control. In Djakarta the Nederlandse Cultuurbank and the last of the "Big Five" Dutch export-import firms were taken over by Indonesian management. The central government ordered some 500 Dutch agricultural estates throughout the islands (sisal, palm oil, spices) placed under the supervision of the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture...
...first seizures had often been carried out by workers from SOB SI and other Communist-led unions encouraged by Sukarno's inflammatory denunciation of the Dutch for their refusal to hand over West Irian (the western portion of New Guinea). But in the crisis' second week, the Indonesian government made clear that when there was seizing to be done, the government would do it. Premier Djuanda sharply toned down Sukarno's "hate-the-Dutch" campaign, said that Dutch citizens and Dutch properties would receive full government protection. SOBSI agitators were told by army and government officials...
However illegal the seizures,, were, by last week the government was clearly determined to give them some ex post facto cover of legality. Indonesian politicians of all parties emphasized that there would and could be no turning back, that the Dutch hold on Indonesia's economy would be broken, no matter what the cost. West Irian had only provided the occasion for a break they considered inevitable...
...Indonesian Army Tightens...