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…

At the World Council of Churches in Geneva, which was launced in Amsterdam last august, Dr. Visser ‘t Hooft told that not all of the press comment had been favorable about Amsterdam.

In the 18th Century Chateau de Bossey, which overlooks Lake Geneva, the Executive Committee of the World Council of Churches met last week to take stock of the world organization which was launched at Amsterdam last August. The committee also found time to denounce “the threats to man’s rights and…

The NL. won a quick, clean-cut victory in Asia. The Western powers responded confused. Independence was failing in more places and Indonesia could also follow that pattern.

About the year 1560, the people living near Jogjakarta in Java found a strange creature on the beach. It looked like a man, except that it was white. They chained it to a big square stone outside of town where all could watch and laugh at its antics. They called…

The effect of the U.N. truce agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic is working out slowly. The Dutch were accused of stalling to avoid any kind of settlement.

To set against its long list of futile endeavors, the United Nations could point to a few modest successes. One was the truce agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesian Republic. Last week that small star in U.N.’s crown was fading fast.

Stalemate. The hitch did not result from lack…

Determined Dr. Van Mook had pressed for a semi-autonomous Indonesia. World opinion will not stand for the use of force by the Dutch, said a British spokesman.

A brooding quiet settled over Indonesia. It was the quiet of a faintly smoking volcano. Here & there snipers’ rifles cracked. But mostly the British and Dutch sat waiting behind their guns in strongholds of European authority like Batavia, Surabaya, Semarang, Bandung. Beyond these cities, in the rich hinterland of…

Round-up information in the neutral European nations. In The NL. the earth was hard as brick; canals and flooded lands, which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice.

Late last August Europe went through its last great pre-war crisis—terminated by war in Poland and the west. Late last November Europe went through another less spectacular crisis—terminated by war in Finland. Last week Europe was in the midst of another crisis.

The seriousness of the latest crisis…

An unsympathetic Dutch court last week sentenced Friedrich Adler to four months in jail, who in 1917 was convicted of assassinating the then Austrian Imperial Chancellor, Count Stürgkh.

More members of labor unions throughout the world are affiliated with the Second (Socialist) International than with any other group. Its secretary is Dr. Friedrich Wolfgang Adler, an Austrian who in 1917 was convicted of assassinating the then Austrian Imperial Chancellor, Count Stürgkh, but was amnestied. Socialist workers throughout the world…

The Islamic-Nationalist riots burst out again last week in Sumatra. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as “Communists.”

The Islamic-Nationalist riots, recently suppressed in Java (TIME, Nov. 22) burst out again last week in Sumatra. Dutch troops of the Netherlandic East Indies forces arrested 550 rioters at Siloengkang, shot 100. As usual the Dutch press, ignorantly or maliciously, referred to the malcontents as “Communists.”