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Tea, Cakes & Empire

722

The Dutch agrees to initiate talks with the moderate nationalists, to pay a higher political price for order in their Empire. Indonesian nationalism had come to stay.

In the country house of Britain’s Prime Minister the generation of empire menders was at work. The worried ghosts of the empire builders—among them. Raffles of Singapore and Coen of Batavia—looked on. The great Far Eastern domain they had helped create was badly cracked, in danger of breakdown…

Little & Big

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The Dutch want to rely rather on own “direct discussions” between The Netherlands and her rebellious colonials than the quarrel in Java be settled by the United Nations Organization.

At San Francisco last spring, Netherlands Foreign Minister Eelco van Kleffens chided the big powers for preferring “to rely on their own strength rather than upon world government.” In Java last week the little power acted precisely like a big power.

Acting Governor’ General Hubertus J. van Mook brushed aside…

Sputtering

260

British, French and Dutch proconsuls gathered to discuss on a new policy toward 94 mil. rebellious colonials in Asia. Java is the most troublesome and disaffected region.

In the bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied “Supremo” for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain’s genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France’s dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland’s determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting…

“I Deeply Regret”

129

Wilhelmina said in a speech that she is concerned about Java and promised, as she had promised before, a partnership in a “Netherlands Commonwealth.”

Queen Wilhelmina, looking tired and strained, had a word for her seething Indonesian subjects last week. In her first speech from the throne in six years, she addressed them across the distant barricades. Promising—as she had promised before (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942)—partnership in a “Netherlands Commonwealth,” she said:…

New Man, Old Demands

195

Britons and Indonesians still killed each other in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The British got Dutch and Indonesian leaders together in Batavia for an inconclusive peace talk.

Britons and Indonesians still killed each other in The Netherlands East Indies last week. They did not know quite how to stop.

The British got Dutch and Indonesian leaders together in Batavia for an in conclusive peace talk. The Dutch had refused to deal with President Soekarno of the “Indonesian…

Arrows & Sugar

190

More blood was shed in The Netherland East Indies. The Dutch had renewed their offer of dominion status under a Dutch governor general. Indonesian nationalists rejected the offer.

More blood was shed in The Netherland East Indies last week. Little of it was Dutch. Their troops hovered in ships off Java’s great naval base of Surabaya. Ashore, British casualties went over 300, Indonesian over 2,000.

The British still said that they were merely trying to restore order. Major…

The Course of Empire

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The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders’ control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops were attacked by large Javanese forces. Soekarno appealed for a cease-fire.

Fighting flared anew in The Netherlands East Indies last week. The nationalist movement seemed to be getting out of its leaders’ control. At Surabaya 1,600 British troops, attacked by large Javanese forces, well armed with Jap equipment, including tanks, had some 100 casualties. President Soekarno of the “Indonesian Republic” flew…

The Prophecy

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The white man was back in The Netherlands East Indies, but in paltry force. The yellow man’s rule was broken, but he had not gone. Both of them had lost face.

In the book of Djayabhaya, the Hindu king who ruled a vast Javanese empire eight centuries ago, it was written that a white man would come one day to Indonesia. He would stay to rule the islands many years. Then, for the three-year “life of a hen,” a yellow man…

Trouble in the Indies

The white man had reoccupied Java, richest and most densely populated of the East Indies, with such weak forces that he had been forced to call on armed Japs for police help.

The white man had reoccupied Java, richest and most densely populated of the East Indies, with such weak forces that he had been forced to call on armed Japs for police help. Now Dutchmen, Eurasians and Japs were being killed in skirmishes all over the island. Hardly any of it…

Partnership, No

405

Southeast Asia’s contagion of nationalism plagued the Dutch last week. Riots broke out on Java. Soekarno, long-winded nationalist, blandly deplored the outbreaks.

Southeast Asia’s contagion of nationalism plagued the Dutch last week.

The rich tin mines and oil pools of The Netherlands East Indies had been prize loot for the Japanese. Dropping all such stolen property last month, the Japs took time to throw a sharp tack in the path of the…

Rubber & Spices

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When will raw materials from the Orient would reach the U.S. again. Tin: At least least a year. Dutch tea experts are en route to India, will move soon to the Netherlands East Indies.

Within weeks, perhaps within days, foreign traders will know the answer to a question they have mulled for three and a half years: how long would it take after war’s end for raw materials from the Orient to reach the U.S.? Some guesses last week:

Rubber. Plenty of natural rubber…

Why Borneo Is Important

371

Dutch oilfield engineers and technicians went ashore close behind the attacking Australians carrying equipment shipped under Lend-Lease from the U.S.

At Borneo’s Tarakan Island last week Dutch oilfield engineers and technicians went ashore close behind the attacking Australians. With them they carried oilfield tools and equipment shipped under Lend-Lease from the U.S.

It was not by chance that the trained oilmen and their equipment were on hand for the Tarakan…

Thirty for the Dutch

294

Congressman Richard J. Welch (R., Calif.) wanted to know why scarce steel was being used to build 30 merchant ships in U.S. yards for the Dutch Government.

Congressman Richard J. Welch (R., Calif.) wanted to know why scarce steel was being used to build 30 merchant ships in U.S. yards for the Dutch Government. To this logical question he got a logical answer. Said the Maritime Commission’s Vice Admiral Emery S. Land: when the ships are completed…

Giants in Those Days

342

A Java geologist, Dr. R. von Koenigswald of The Netherlands Indies Geological Survey, had dug up bones of prehistoric men bigger than the largest known apes.

There were giants in the earth in those days.—Genesis, VI, 4.

Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape and a monkey in size. But last week evidence was offered to prove Genesis correct. A Java…

There were giants in the earth in those days.—Genesis, VI, 4.

Genesis and many a folk tale notwithstanding, most anthropologists have pictured primitive man as a little fellow somewhere between an ape and a monkey in size. But last week evidence was offered to prove Genesis correct. A Java…

Only the Beginning

214

Henry J. Kaiser shipbuiliding co. fixed the first postwar contract with the Dutch: 30 diesel cargo ships designed for the Netherlands East Indies coastwise trade.

Irrepressible, indefatigable Henry J. Kaiser is fixing to cop the first postwar contract in the shipbuilding industry. The contract: 30 diesel cargo ships designed for the Netherlands East Indies coastwise trade. The production schedule: building to begin “long before” year’s end. Henry and the Dutch, equally shrewd, figured the ships…

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