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...quote a top Washington diplomat as saying that it is a hard political choice between Indonesia and The Netherlands (in the West Irian dispute), since Indonesia has threatened to go Communist if they don't get things their way. It must be encouraging for the Western allies to realize that the U.S. has become so weak that it is at the point of allowing blackmail. If the U.S. has to make a choice, why not do it on its presumed high moral standards, of which it so frequently boasts...
...government announced that he was leaving any minute for a vacation tour which would range from Tokyo to Cairo. But government officials were working to stop the forcible seizure of Dutch properties by workers inflamed with nationalist fervor at The Netherlands' refusal to discuss the question of West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). In East Java, Indonesian army officers confronted a mob that had surrounded the home of a Dutch estate manager. "Are you brave, very brave?" asked one officer. "Yes, yes!" yelled the workers, apparently in the belief that the army would help them sack the Dutch estate...
Dutch estates, the government insisted, had been neither appropriated nor nationalized, but taken into "protective custody." Premier Djuanda declared that the Dutch have two choices: 1) surrender West Irian and resume normal relations with Indonesia; 2) hold West Irian and have their "entire interests in Indonesia liquidated...
...Indonesian knew already: that the country has almost no navy or air force and could not possibly take Netherlands New Guinea forcibly no matter how belligerently Sukarno & Co. may sound off in Djakarta. "Our youth." said Hatta, "should not be asked to swim across the ocean to get West Irian. It is not through war that we will get back West Irian but by peaceful ways and means...
...flat "hands-off" order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...