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...fighting grew fiercer in Java last week. Japanese soldiers helped the British in a sharp action at Semarang in central Java. U.S.-made Sherman tanks helped British Indian troops finally clear most of Surabaya. Noisy, effective Indonesian radio stations cried to the youth of the Indies to rise and join their jungle columns. At week's end the British sped Mosquito-borne rockets into two radio stations...
...hesitate to predict a revolution or revolt so far in advance, but all evidence certainly points to the same alarming conclusion. The reasons are partly historic and partly aggravated by the present situation (the use of Indian troops in Java, for one thing). Certainly the tinderbox has been moved nearer the match by the Indians' frustration at the fact that Labor is not for them a new hope but is following the oldtime India policy. We are firmly convinced that great trouble is in the making and further feel it highly significant-1) that the British are keeping such...
...Batavia peace talk, Sjahrir demanded at least a guarantee of eventual independence. The Dutch would not give it. Further talks were scheduled, though agreement seemed remote. Meanwhile, the British seized Semarang in central Java after nationalists murdered three officers there. At Surabaya Britain's Indian troops inched forward after nine days of bitter fighting...
...Jamaica imported mongooses (from Java). They cleaned up the rats in short order- and then began on the snakes, the lizards and the birds. With all these insect-eaters out of the way, the insects all but took over the island. Finally the Government had to step in and get rid of the mongooses...
...only official U.S. comment came from Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson, who had hoped to get sugar from Java. Now, in the understatement of the week, he explained: "Trying to get it out would not tend to promote peace...