Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbolize. As the new Central Legislative Assembly met for the first time in New Delhi, not only Bose's brother, Sarat Chandra Bose, but Moslem League Leader Mohamed Ali Jinnah, champion of Pakistan and once a good friend of Britain, denounced British use of Indian troops in Java, demanded their removal...
...week he beheld what he described as "the most tragic face I have seen in the war." The place was Batavia's Koningsplein Railway Station. The face was that of a woman-one of 156 weary Dutch internees detraining after a 52-hour trip across the length of Java from Malang. Cabled Sherrod...
Clark Kerr is finicky in his tastes. He reads and paints for relaxation, but scorns bridge as "the world's worst way of wasting time." His vast collection of pipes has been assembled all over the world, will almost certainly follow him to Java. He takes his Scotch with water, prefers old-fashioned goose quills to fountain pens. He can still play the bagpipes - with discretion...
...idea, despite the opposition of diehard Dutch imperialists. Last week, as he prepared to fly back to Batavia, he said: "I am convinced that after one generation the Indonesians can reach full equality of status with Europeans. I hope we will come to terms. . . . There are groups in Java suitable for us to negotiate with...
Indonesian President Soekarno and Premier Sutan Sjahrir had a working agreement, but there was no love lost between them. While the moderate Premier carried on in Batavia, the less moderate President established headquarters in Jokyakarta, an inland city of Central Java known as the citadel of Indonesian independence...