Word: semarang
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Minister van Mook was a scholar raised to the rank of statesman. He came of sturdy stock (a great-grandfather marched to Moscow and back with Napoleon), was the son of two schoolteachers. Born in Semarang, Java, he was educated in Amsterdam, Delft, Leiden (and for a few months later on attended California's Stanford University). He is still proud of his American slang and of being a cover-to-cover reader of TIME. Back in the Indies, he became a civil servant, served a hitch as adviser to the Sultan of Jokyakarta. By 1931, when he decided...
...Java the People's Council ordered watch kept on the activities of two Nazi newspapers in Batavia, and in Semarang a committee of "action against internal enemies" began military training. Of the 32,000 foreigners in The Netherlands East Indies, 7,300 are Germans, 7,200 Japanese...