Word: java
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brooding quiet settled over Indonesia. It was the quiet of a faintly smoking volcano. Here & there snipers' rifles cracked. But mostly the British and Dutch sat waiting behind their guns in strongholds of European authority like Batavia, Surabaya, Semarang, Bandung. Beyond these cities, in the rich hinterland of Java, under the red-&-white flag of the Indonesian Republic, the nationalist leaders of 50,000,000 people were also marking time...
...Minister for Overseas Territories J. H. A. Logemann, who had publicly barred a return of "the extinct past" to the East Indies; Old Etonian Sir Nevile Bland, who as Ambassador to The Hague has the delicate job of relaying British views on how the Dutch should run their empire; Java-born Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the Acting Governor General, fresh from the rebellious East Indies. No Indonesians were present. The empire-menders came quickly to the point...
...Java, the five-month-old Indonesian Republic of President Soekarno and Premier Sutan Sjahrir wanted full political independence, not dominion status in a Netherlands Commonwealth. According to the A.P.'s Vern Haugland, back from a tour of Java's hinterland, the Republic was well-entrenched and popular...
...Francisco last spring, Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco van Kleffens chided the big powers for preferring "to rely on their own strength rather than upon world government." In Java last week the little power acted precisely like a big power...
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...