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...want to talk to our correspondent in Batavia, Java, his telephone number is (or was, recently) satuh duaw sambulan toojoo. Ask for Robert Sherrod-but don't expect him to be there...
...could take the commission's bows. Back in 1942 he had found that the only decent Peruvian artifacts were buried in museums. Most stores sold shoddy, cast silverware and tritely patterned blankets. Bailey, who had acquired a ripe background digging the best teakwood and tapa cloth out of Java and Oceania, knew exactly what to do: hit out for the sources of pre-Columbian handicrafts and discover the lost techniques...
...India, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Siam, British Pacific Islands, French Pacific Islands, Guam, Java, The Netherlands Indies, Philippines, Samoa and Sumatra...
...Baron hurried off with the moody Van Mook and three Indonesian representatives to isolated St. Hubertus Lodge in Holland's De Hooge Veluwe National Park. In the secluded hunting estate, the conferees wrestled with the last loose ends of an agreement which had been fashioned in preliminary Java meetings. The stubborn Dutch and fanatic Indonesians had found a middle ground. Indonesia would become an autonomous "full and equal" partner with The Netherlands, Surinam and Curaçao, under the Dutch crown...
...village market, bulging a few days before with fruits, vegetables and poultry, counters were bare. Colonel ter Meulen could secure no servants for his headquarters. A dance was scheduled for a U.S. visitor in a village temple; no natives came. Nationalist agitators who had hopped over from Java had not succeeded in converting the Balinese into fire-eating revolutionaries. But fear of the Pemoeda (Javanese extremist Youth Movement) kept the peaceable Balinese from cooperating with the white...