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...Netherlands and Belgium were allowed to drift through a year of chaotic "peace." Spain was an embarrassing problem. Even U.S.-British relations had soured over the bungled preparations for the British loan. In the Americas, Perón prospered on Washington's opposition. In southeast Asia and Indonesia, restless peoples, driving for freedom, were losing faith in a U.S. which appeared only as an associate of their masters. Russian power waxed, but not all the reasons were to be found in Moscow...
General Sir Claude Auchinleck, British Commander in Chief in India, made two concessions: 1) Indian troops, whose recall from Indonesia was demanded by nationalist rioters, will be withdrawn within five months; 2 ) there will be no mass punishment of mutineers and rioters...
...Archibald Clark Kerr, Britain's special envoy to Indonesia, time dragged as sluggishly as a sick carabao. While he waited for Indonesians and Dutch to get together, the Ambassador visited Surabaya, where tall, mustachioed Major General Eric Mansergh, Commander of the Fifth Indian Division, invited him to give British troops a lecture about Russia...
...cities, including Delhi. Would Indian Army troops revolt again? Already Indian Air Force men had staged sympathy "strikes." Like the Navy mutineers, soldiers demand better pay, better food, faster demobilization. Indian troops, the bulk of British overseas forces, are scattered wide in the world's trouble spots: Greece, Indonesia, Syria, Burma, Egypt, Malaya, Iraq and Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able to whisper. The Army remained quiescent, but even trusted veterans were attending secret meetings of extreme nationalist groups. The British...
...Heard Iranian charges against Russian troops in Azerbaijan and Russian countercharges against British troops in Greece and Indonesia...