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...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...
...with the Netherlands East Indies government and with a commercial distributor. Although copies of TIME were already moving across the military perimeter into Indonesian territory (where they sold at $3.50 a copy), arrangements were also made for supplying Indonesian leaders (President Soekarno, his cabinet, etc.) in the interior of Java...
Before the cease-fire order went into effect, the Dutch had won control of most of the Indies. Last week, with an amphibious stroke, they chopped big Sumatra in two, seized oilfields and rich rubber and coffee plantations. Republicans still held south central Java. With all major Javanese ports in Dutch hands it was an isolated stronghold...
...midnight the Dutch struck. Troops seized the radio, the cable office, and Republican government buildings in Batavia, seat of the Dutch administration in Java. Next day, Dutch planes struck at the Republic's weak air force (about 40 old Japanese planes), which they caught on the ground. With artillery preparation, the Dutch army began an attack on the big north central Java city of Semarang...