The Dutch provincial of the Augustinian order has proposed opening convents to men & women of any Christian faith, married or single. Rome has threatened to disband the Dutch province.

DECEMBER is the darkest month. The sun is lowest in the sky. The nights are longest. Yet in its midst—perhaps in their hunger for warmth and light in the nadir of seasons—believers of the Western world have immemorially celebrated hope. In recent years, God has seemed to many…

The Indonesian case before the U.N. Security Council simmered down. The Dutch told the U.N. council that they would cease firing in Indonesia only in their own good time.

The Indonesian case before the U.N. Security Council simmered down. A Dutch representative described the American attitude: “At first, the U.S. reacted like a New England parent surprised by a young man trifling with his daughter’s honor. Now the State Department’s attitude has changed. It became: ‘What are we…

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…