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...delegates and aides representing the Dutch, the Indonesians and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia met one evening last week to put the finishing touches on a Dutch-Indonesian agreement. After a quiet 45 minutes in the steamy 90° heat of the ballroom, the business was over. Jogjakarta, the Java capital which the Dutch had taken forcibly from the embryonic Indonesian Republic 6½ months ago (TIME, Dec. 27), would be peacefully returned...
...earth's new-found neighbors are not the kind to attract attention to themselves. Dr. Luyten, Java-born and Holland-educated, discovered them only by comparing photographic plates made at the Harvard College Observatory's station in South Africa in 1930 with other plates made there in 1944. So shy and retiring are the twins that their light would have to be 100 times stronger than it is to be seen by the naked...
...frontier was drawn cutting Java...
...conquerors set up a puppet government of nationalist leaders. Collaborators soon found the promises worthless, but in 1945 they did not regret their move. The Japanese surrender caught British and Dutch troops unprepared. To keep order in the Islands, the Allies were forced to recognize existing Republican sovereignty in Java and Sumatra...
...night, firing could still be heard near towns. Saboteurs set fire to many a plantation; in Surakarta, republican Java's second city, they had blown up most public buildings. A clandestine "free Indonesian" radio station broadcast news of guerrilla successes to the republican army scattered in the hills. "The confusion of the defending Dutch troops," said one broadcast, "was increased through tomtom beating by the population...