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When Republican extremists forced moderate Premier Sjahrir to resign last month because of his willingness to cooperate with the Dutch, a break seemed certain. But his successor was another moderate, Amir Sjarifoedden, who has long worked with the Dutch. When he thought he was dying in a Japanese prison camp during the war, Sjarifoedden left a message for his old friend Van Mook, asking him to take care of his wife & children. After the Dutch attack this week, Sjarifoedden was less sure of his friends. "I accuse the Dutch," he said over the radio, "of trying to recolonialize...
...signing was a notable triumph for the moderation of Dutch Acting Governor General Hubertus van Mook and Indonesia's common-sensical Premier Sjahrir. "On Indonesia," said Sjahrir to his people, "we are lighting a small torch, the torch of humanity. Let us take care of it. Let us hope it will mark the beginning of lightness all over the world." Five days later he left for the Inter-Asian Conference at Delhi. At the Hague, two hours after the pact was signed, a newly convened Parliament promptly ratified it by a vote...
...Said Sjahrir: "When your troops leave Indonesia I'll say things twice as nice about the Dutch...
...pact now before the Dutch States-General was drafted last month at Linggadjati. There, with Lord Killearn in the chair, Schermerhorn, van Mook and Soekarno (Sjahrir had one of his frequent colds) haggled out an agreement. The issue finally boiled down to a sentence in Article 2 which referred to Indonesia as a "free democratic state." Soekarno's Economics Minister, 38-year-old A. K. Gani (who once acted in a Batavian-made movie True Love), objected: "That word 'free' is not enough. It should be 'sovereign.' " Van Mook turned to Soekarno: "Will you accept...
...chose Java, and the Indonesian independence movement, for his first major assignment and, in the process of reporting that story, made two trips through territory forbidden to white men with Sjahrir, Indonesian premier. He also spent some time with rebel leader Soetomo, a fiery five-footer regarded by the Dutch as a most dangerous enemy. Soetomo's chief lieutenant was a pint-sized woman, about 50 years old, who said she was born on the Isle of Man, claimed U.S. citizenship through one of her marriages, and was variously known as Miss Tantri, Miss Daventry, Miss Merdeka (freedom...