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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stalling? Republican leaders suspected that the Dutch were stalling to avoid any kind of settlement. In their "police action" last summer, Dutch troops seized the biggest towns and richest lands of Java, deprived the republic of rule over two-thirds of Java, parts of Sumatra and all of Madura. Meanwhile the Dutch have maintained a naval blockade of the Republican area. Republican leaders suspected a Dutch scheme to whittle down the republic's size and staying power until they could impose their rule throughout Indonesia, through Dutch-controlled governments. One measure of their good faith would be the speed...
...correspondent in Java had cabled TIME, offering a future story on truce negotiations, outlining the terms of the still confidential U.S.-Australian proposal. TIME did not print the information. By complaining about its "publication" in TIME, the Dutch not only put every other correspondent in Indonesia on the track of the story-they admitted that somebody was snooping into correspondents' outgoing cablegrams, a violation of confidential communications which many a government practices, but which no polite government likes to admit...
Like Tiltman, William Costello of CBS had sent critical reports on General MacArthur. Costello, who planned a trip to Java, got the same notice as Tiltman. McGraw-Hill's Alpheus Jessup wanted to visit Malaya and Burma. Ex-General Frayne Baker, MacArthur's P.R.O., ruled Jessup would have to take his wife, who is expecting a child in a month, with...
...Security Council could look back on a sizable list of frustrations and failures. It could also note one current achievement: from Java, U.N.'s Good Offices Committee reported to the Council last week that the Dutch and Indonesians had at last agreed to truce terms. But the success was dwarfed by threatening new business...
Gibbon had planned his operation with care. With food and equipment stacked up in Java and Singapore, Gibbon and 25 oilmen had entered Sumatra soon after war's end. They combed the Japanese prison camps for some 650 Dutch and Eurasian Standard employees. But it was not until the spring of 1946 that Gibbon got his first U.S. shipment of steel and heavy equipment, and was able to begin rebuilding the plant...