Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thorniest problems of the conference was the public debt incurred by the Dutch administration in Indonesia, which the new republic would have to take over. The Dutch had originally set the figure at 6.3 billion guilders ($1.7 billion), but the U.N. Commission on Indonesia, which hovered anxiously over The Hague talks, helped persuade the Dutch to scale down their demands to 4.3 billion ($1.1 billion). Another tough nut was the future of New Guinea, a large part of which is still held by Dutch troops. Under the compromise which Van Royen had engineered, both parties agreed to defer a decision...
...this union the new nation and The Netherlands would have "equal status with equal rights." Queen Juliana, as head of the Union, would embody "the concept of voluntary and lasting cooperation between the partners." All Dutch forces would leave Indonesia within six months of transfer of sovereignty (to take place not later than Dec. 30). The U.S.I. would control its own army & navy, although the Dutch would keep the right to use the Surabaya naval base under Indonesian supervision; the U.S.I. would also control its own economy, although it promised not to seize any Dutch property, and to consult...
...seemed a forlorn hope. "The film," loftily retorted the Sports Society's president, the Duke of Beaufort, "is not one in which any real sportsman would wish his hounds to take part...
Last fortnight, the Episcopate abruptly shifted its stand, authorized priests to accept state salaries, to swear loyalty to the Communist "people's democracy" and to pledge themselves not to do anything "against [the state's] interests, security or integrity." But later the bishops instructed the priests to take the oath with the qualification, ". . . Since I am convinced that the government would never ask anything which would be contrary to the laws of God or human rights...
Arriving in Manhattan to take over direction of the Metropolitan Opera next June, British Impresario Rudolf Bing told newsmen that the Met was "in excellent shape as far as vocal talent goes," but declined to be drawn out about its notoriously outdated scenery and production. Explained Bing: "It would be rather tactless of me to be critical...