Word: manokwari
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...small bands of "infiltrators" in New Guinea to "show the red and white flag" of Indonesia and stir anti-Dutch feeling among its tribesmen-many of whom have never heard of Indonesia. More sophisticated New Guinea natives are mostly hostile to Sukarno's "liberation" plans. Last week in Manokwari, where the Dutch first established an ad ministrative post 64 years ago, 3,000 dark-skinned Papuans staged an anti-Indonesian protest march-with encouragement from the Dutch. Waving their own red-and-blue national flag, they paraded to the strains of an old Dutch anthem. Its name: We Want...
...beleagured Jap commanding the Second Army should have been able to figure it out: Wakde Island-on May 17; Biak on May 27; Noemfoor on July 2. But the Jap apparently persisted in the conviction that MacArthur's next move would be against Second Army headquarters at Manokwari...
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