Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...able career diplomat and chief Dutch troubleshooter at The Hague Round Table Conference, which had been called to settle the differences between Indonesia and The Netherlands (TIME, Sept. 5). Van Royen had just wound up a crucial committee meeting which seemed to assure the conference's success. The way was clear for the birth of a new nation...
...Namur, in Belgium, helped to break the ice; Indonesia's Premier Mohammed Hatta and the Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories, Johan van Maarseveen, reached some important decisions chatting in their car. Explained Van Royen: "It doesn't pay to try to be too clever. The only way to gain confidence is to treat people as normal equals. The fortunate thing is that our interests run parallel. They can't do without us, nor we without them...
Some Indonesian editorial snipers blamed the U.S. for everything. Cried the newspaper Nasional: "We demand an integral and undivided independence. But what do we see today? [New Guinea] was pawned for one year . . . America is going to defend itself against Communism, and Indonesia is on its way to be made the place for America's self-defense...
...Marquot boom was largely due to the way in which the boss was getting along with his 400 workers. Gustave Marquot is practicing and preaching a kind of capitalism which, in most of Europe (and quite a few places in the U.S.), would be considered as both revolutionary and paternalistic...
...watched Marquot among his workers. Against the eerie background of a dozen gaping furnaces belching fire, men & women moved swiftly as fireflies carrying red-hot glass at the end of prongs, molding, blowing, cooling. There was not much room, but the workers never got in each other's way. Said the capitaliste éclairé, "It is all a matter of going to the right place at the right speed at the right time...