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…