Word: lingajatti
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March, 1947, nationalists believed their 40-year-old cause at last victorious when they signed the Lingajatti Agreement with the Dutch, according them de facto recognition. There was no dispute about ends; both the Republic and Holland desired a United States of Indonesia which would win equal status with the Netherlands in a new commonwealth. A serious quarrel developed over means, however. The Agreement provided for each State to determine freely its relation to the U.S.I. and to the Netherlands. Fearing to unlcash the Republic altogether lost it decide against inclusion later on, the Dutel, demanded strict control...
Essentially the issues remain the same today. Truce has been imposed several times by a United Nations Good Offices Committee, composed of the United States, Belgium, and Australia, but both sides have disregarded its directives. The Renville Agreement of January, 1948, did little but restate the ambiguities of Lingajatti and proved abortive. With the help of a complete blockade of Republican territory, the Dutch were playing on time--snipping off pieces of nationalist holdings and converting them to pro-Dutch states. On December 19, Dutch paratroops descended on Jokjakaria and captured the heads of the Republican government, saying that...
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