Word: agreements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Broken Ice. Nationalists in Indonesia sputtered that they did not like the agreement which Van Royen and the Indonesian representatives had worked out (see below). Nevertheless, after four years of bitter fighting and endless negotiations, it looked as though Indonesia would get the freedom it fiercely wanted, and yet would retain some of the economic ties with The Netherlands which are necessary for the survival of both countries...
Equal Rights. The final Dutch-Indonesian agreement would set up the Republic of the United States of Indonesia, a federation with a constitution much like that of the U.S., in the general framework of a Netherlands Indonesian Union, much like the British Commonwealth. In this union the new nation and The Netherlands would have "equal status with equal rights." Queen Juliana, as head of the Union, would embody "the concept of voluntary and lasting cooperation between the partners." All Dutch forces would leave Indonesia within six months of transfer of sovereignty (to take place not later than...
...optimism heard at The Hague found only a faint echo some 8,000 miles away at Jogjakarta, the makeshift capital of the Indonesian Republic. As news of the agreement crackled in over the shortwave radio last week, there was increasing discontent among the nationalists. A leader of the Labor Party summed up their complaints: "Too many concessions to the Dutch...
...agreement faced tough sledding in the Indonesian congress, which had still to ratify it. But, as a spokesman for Masjumi, Indonesia's largest political party, put it: "We are not very contented. Yet we will make the best...
...July 8th he was in Palestine. He went directly into action. Chief air opposition came from the Egyjtians flying Italian fighters and British Spitfires, and the single Arab group with a respectable air force. The Israelis flew planes bought through an agreement with the Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field...