Enraged by Indonesia’s noisy propaganda threats, The Netherlands sent off to Asian waters the aircraft carrier Karel Doorman.

All that is left of the once rich East Indies empire of the Dutch is the far-from-wealthy colony of West New Guinea. Indonesia, which inherited all the rest of the empire, covets New Guinea too. Enraged by Indonesia’s noisy propaganda threats, The Netherlands last June sent off to Asian waters…

Although Indonesia celebrated its 15th year of independance, men were in the streets to protest. For the 4,000 Dutch who remain threatenings continue.

Nothing ever works quite the way it should in Indonesia. Scarcely had the red and white flags been put up to celebrate the nation’s 15th independence day last week when workmen were back in the streets of Djakarta. Their task: to take down 12-ft.-high poster portraits of Guinea’s President…

Life of a diplomat in Red China is a lonely life at best, but worst of all for The Netherlands chargé d’affaires in Peking. One by one, 42 Chinese servants and staffmen began to leave.

In Peking the practice of diplomacy is apt to be anything but diplomatic. In the eagerness of several Western nations to recognize Red China, the men who have had to pay the local price are the diplomats sent to Peking. It is a lonely life at best, but worst of…

A report of a nine-man Dutch parliamentary commission that visited New Guinea last year concluded that the Dutch administration was ineffective and without success.

As many a World War II G.I. can testify, Western New Guinea is an unappetizing piece of real estate—a land of tropical swamps, unexplored mountains and predominantly Stone Age inhabitants. Yet for more than seven years, possession of this forbidding backwater has been the subject of a bitter quarrel…

The Indonesian Republic “came into being in large part as a result of the interest of the United States that a republic should be founded.” writes TIME, quoting Secretary of State Dulles.

FROM the sandy wastes of North Africa to the lush rain forests of Southeast Asia, the winds of anti-colonialism blow with gale force, and wherever they blow, there is resentment and suspicion of the U.S. “The U.S.,” says an Indonesian, “sides with the Western colonial powers and has not done…

Indonesia’s economic crisis grew daily more acute. Indonesian officials want the Dutch to surrender West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea) or they have their interests in Indonesia liquidated.

Indonesia’s economic crisis grew daily more acute. In Central Java, hungry peasants were reported eating field mice. President Sukarno lingered on, neither ruling nor resting, though the government announced that he was leaving any minute for a vacation tour which would range from Tokyo to Cairo. But government officials were…

Sukarno’s campaign to seize vast commercial holdings and new seizures of Dutch properties continued apace. The cost will be high for Indonesia, governmental officials admitted.

Indonesia’s usually cocky President Sukarno seemed tired, nervous and uncertain. While his government’s reckless campaign to seize The Netherlands’ vast commercial holdings continued apace, Sukarno made his rounds screened by a phalanx of bodyguards, armored cars and secret servicemen. In Surabaya, Sukarno exhorted a rally of 100,000 Indonesians to prepare…

Last week Sukarno energetically tried to boot out all westerners of Dutch citizenship in his country, with never a backward thought for their rights or their properties.

Only last year Indonesia’s handsome, personable President Sukarno came to Washington, talking largely of Abraham Lincoln, the rights of man, and his devotion to democracy and the West. Overwhelmed by his sentiments and his charm, Washington’s National Press Club gave him a standing ovation. Last week Sukarno was displaying his…

Secretary of State Dulles would prefer to see private capital eventually replace foreign-aid funds in overseas economic development, like the Dutch did well in facilitating private investment.

PRIVATE CAPITAL ABROAD

REGARDLESS of the drive to cut the Administration’s $3.9 billion foreign-aid program—and the chances are that it will be cut deeply—many a businessman feels that it is high time for a new and different approach to foreign aid. The most promising: encouraging greater activity abroad…

The Dutch/KLM have been granted two new U.S. air routes by the U.S. State Dept. Both the Civil Aeronautics Board and U.S. airlines have opposed it.

For eleven years the Dutch have been trying mightily to get new U.S. air routes to add to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ profitable runs from Amsterdam to New York and Curasao to Miami. They have been opposed both by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which feels that the U.S. is already…

After two failed ideas Council of Europe and the European Army (EDC) theie is a new economic approach to unite Europe. The Dutch hoped of new markets for their agricultural produce.

WESTERN EUROPE

Out of the ashes and gutted cities of World War II, idealists tried to create a united Europe by means of a political idea: the Council of Europe. They failed. Then came the hardheaded soldiers and diplomats who wanted to “build Europe” through a European army in a…

The Netherlands Ambassador announced that his government was dismayed by the outspoken anti-colonialism of some of Dulles’ public statements he made in Indonesia.

In Washington a mixed lot of bouquets and brickbats showered down on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, just home from a 19-day swing through Asia. President Eisenhower greeted the Secretary’s return with a press conference pat on the back: “These trips, of course, are onerous burdens on an…

Netherlands’ Foreign Minister Johan Beyen backed by Benelux countries proposed a further integration of European unity but the French and Germans wanted to go slow.

After years of high hope, fine talk and hard work, about all that is left of the great postwar dream of European unity is a diminishing gleam in the eyes of thousands of “good Europeans” and one big tangible fact: the Schuman Coal-Steel Community, which pools the coal and steel…

The Netherlands’ Senate became the final parliament to ratify the Paris accords, rearming 500,000 West Germans within a Western European Union.

Last week, in Europe, the West completed a long contemplated step forward, and the Communists stepped back. By 32 to 2, The Netherlands’ Senate became the final parliament to ratify the Paris accords, rearming 500,000 West Germans within a Western European Union. Next week, at a full-dress NATO meeting in…

The U.N. committee urged the Dutch and Indonesia to solve the dispute of W. New Guinea. The U.S. abstained from voting, but the U.S. privately conceded to the Dutch to be right.

Lying north of Australia, New Guinea, an island the size of Scandinavia, is populated by an unknown number of fuzzy-haired tribesmen who have no idea of government. The eastern half of New Guinea is ruled by Australia; who should rule the western half was in grave dispute last week. West…