Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the United States of Indonesia was born last month, a wave of forgive & forget sentiment swept over the archipelago. Most Dutch and Indonesian leaders recognized that their future interests ran parallel. Last week a formidable fly stuck firmly in the salve of cooperation...
...Lake Success, an Indonesian spokesman charged that the Dutch were partially responsible for Westerling's raids. The Dutch stoutly denied the charges. Meanwhile, Turk Westerling blandly predicted that a new civil war was about to break out in West Java, from which he would emerge the winner. This was unlikely, but Westerling's bands could fan the dying embers of Indonesia-Dutch resentment and suspicion. First task of the U.S.I, army would be to finish off Turk Westerling...
Died. Lieut. General Raden Soedirman, fortyish, Japanese-trained commander in chief of the Republican Army which spearheaded the Indonesian fight for independence; of tuberculosis; in Magelang, Java...
Meanwhile, in the main.hall of the palace, Indonesian workmen removed the heavy, gilt-framed portraits of the imperial Dutchmen whose hardheaded commercial dealings had founded the empire. (Their pictures would soon be replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures...
...military intervention in the Chinese civil war would jeopardize this country's shaky position in the Far East. Fledgling Asiatic nations such as India, Pakistan, and the Indonesian Republic look upon the U.S. as symbolizing western imperialism and would consider the landing of U.S. military forces on Formosa as an attempt to revive the white man's supremacy in the Far East. Advocates of a military "wall against Communism" in the Pacific area, like the one in Western Europe, fail to realize that Far Easterners, unlike Europeans, do not look to the U.S. for leadership and support, but distrust...