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COMMUNISM

IN INDONESIA

nationalist alīns,

ALW

FOREWORD

Aca.

army

Chinese

Second on account of

offée "in"a.in.

shove off

threats DeWitt getting four

rain,

queer.

Anul three

boats and contents.

INTRODUCTION

The editor of The Stilwell Pa- pers, in an Introduction, вдуз that no change has been made ex- cept for minor liberties, clearly detalled below. Buch editorlal of

rantter ús.is added for purposes back-ground and explanation is clearly marked as such and distin- guished from the text proper by an Italic free.

150

A

ercent

دی

WAS

When

The c

sian Republic now finds it. Because of his intense desire for stadt's command post in Balboa capsized.

I had just gotten 10 Mittel- mine sweeper Bunk. Oklahoma nese friend of General Sillwell

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affair

worse.

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confirmed today Defence Command and Where is oute

to overcome the insurrection standing of the basic and under-and the first thing to do ambition was to dictate peace in out the abbreviations of names, by press tonight.

troops are being dispatched a true and factual account and barged in, and saw General

were written so that he might Camp Ellott.

seems

Coast. Four Marine Carus

thousand

spread

Cuen

and

Post

Wishaw.

n raki

nuts.

was on

The papers brought together come from three sources, coch reflecting a lifelong personal treop' down Highway No. 1. 3:39; fence and two battalions in re-, habit of General Sillwell, Guam being attacked. !

Merve. For 175 miles of const. Į The first source is his personal feeling and with deep

December 8 Once in a.m. No (The old, sinking feeling.). Six Command Journal which

Rumours begin. tanks coming from Ord. priile that I present these words further news.

(The kept faithfully throughout the war. The journal entries are of my husband, General Joseph Went to San Francisco phd saw others won't run.). W. Stilwell. Because of the many Dewitt, Disaster at Honolulu.

usually short, clipped telegraphic plaues, then amphibians. Ind Lingayen landing repulsed.

entries, serving more as personal Jeffers fly down about a hundred controversies concerning his ser Phone from Washington about December 14 One week gone. symbols of memary than a nar- vlees in the Chinn-Burma-India animunition, Almost a hatful. What have we done? Reputations retive

mites.

The Navy flew PBY theater and his recall in Novem- Sunday night air raid" at San blasted and the U.S. ualted and they are technical military notes, of course.

of events. Frequently well down. H.K.$13.00

All reports negative. her. 1944; and because he was Franelico, Two blockouts in Son set for a long hard pull.

Orders and counter- Orly as much of the journals is orders H.K.$38.00 ever allowed to present for him- Francisco.

used in this book as is needed to clothes.

orders for (XYZ). Buy civilian celf the trite facts of the case, Navy patrol, Fourth Army kind Philippine Islands doing fine stitch the sequence of the story Paint out designation on

Leave weapons behind. H.K. $72.00 021 giving him

this opportunity of jittery. Back ant aix.. Much Wake and Midway holding together where other to speak.

depressed. Blackout, on. Calmed [Secretary of Navy] Knox back fall.

sources Planes fly but not bomb, General Stilwell's army te 'em down.

In

Still silence from

shoot machine guns though. Etc.. ben1900, when he entered December TA the United States Military

w/D-BINEREFFE They longerond, sourg.comdists, Plateade:fanity Un

essays and malyses usual- nauseam. Ton in- got, & Coast Artillery Command ly written during periods of re-ber 20) so fed up with [XYZI Arranged to

We are now (Decem demy at the age of seventeenspection trip).

Fleet of thirty-rosidie shot and killed a woman flection when Sillwell, for his and his force one so tired of bo- After his graduation 11004, he four (Japanese) ships between yesterday. DeWitt now in full own

service in the Philippine San Francisco and Los Angeles.

satisfaction, attempled to commant on

situation, sharpen could scream. summarise coust. islands with the 12th Infantry. Later not authentic. (Sink- - The Philippine divisións shot his percepti in

character, or The insurrectionary move. Many interesting years followed

More 'em up at Lingayen. Caught the think

Requests for Army Guards: ment organised by the Com-and during World War I, he being feeling is growing.)

came G-2 of the 4th Corps,

under

of rakis and landings. Japs coming ashore in launches. ing problem particularly vex-

Terminal munists to spread political General Briant H, Wells, Between from East. Dorn and I off at 3:45. Good Job. In fact, most of the of weaving both diaries and re-

regiments Sank 150

Island, shipbuilding The editor has taken the liberty plants, commercial radio stations. and economie chaos in the two World Wars, he

December 10 Rain all way despised prople (Chinese Riflective papers together into a railroad crossovers, dama, waler railrund bridges tind tunnels. South East Asia has now stalloned in China Birce tunes,

for a total of ten years.

down. Went by Camp Cooke atalans. Grecks, and Filipinos) are single pattern; ketting down beth up flared up in the Indonesian 1821, during his first lour 4.00 pm. Hicks pt [Ft.) MacAr-doing the best work for elviliso- diary entry and reflective paper tanka, and refineries,

supply, power plants, oil walls, Aircraft Republic. Neither the re-of duty in China as an

thứy Jittery. News of two British | tion,

single section battleships

when they manur sunk.

God- December 15 Dubby day-no fall under the same date. My volutionary tradition nor the language student in

manufacturing plants, hospitals, Peking, he

worse and worse.

scares. Various lopes in to talk the reflective paper

ated aqueducts, harbour defences, air- is undated, Left-wing outlook of Dr. served to Shansi as construction

On to San Bernardino in beay bear it. Told him to wait till to- by the lagle of text and avents, makes a case for

Royse wants to resign-just can't the editor lins incerted it where, fields, offices of Interceptor Com-

mand, Soekarno's administration engineer on a road being bulit

made. All arrangements

etc..

etc., Everybody Cross for by the American Red Cros

Good job. has sufficed to protect it from famine relief. In Shansi, he spent

his own Had chow at

morrow. The 125th Infantry in, he believes it properly falls. 12;15

stallation, and In

The third source of a Communist attack which months working and living with.m.

one,

Third Cavalry Battalion arrived

nobody gives a material damn December 11

the Army boga down labourers and peasants. Moon

Up at 8:30. Saw

at Phoenix and Tucson.

fo this book is General Sillweil' and quits training. falsely professes to pursue Chinese In 1927,

No bombers here. Out

[Secretary of the Navy] Knox letters to Mrs. Silwell.

Right now while Like the in

sitioned in Tien-| in desert.

(December 20) we from 'Hawaii, Statement are clearly marked with the name

have soven Guvernment of Burma thene spent several months 1 dred B-178 on coast.

But cighty to a humbuck

He says

regiments of Infantry in the area, Navy-ne looks

Arizona of their recipient. an observer with the Government of the Indone- armies, then engaged in Civil Warships, no planes, or very few.

destroyers and

four of which are on guard duty. one Wherever the name of a Chi-

. Now we've

giving started Other has appeared, and whenever, in self threatened by a coalf-fuctul tion of former allies under continuously on fout within the Park, San Diego, when the phone damaged. Whatever that means the opinion of the editor or Mrs. trucks to General Hiso, [XYZ's]

friend of Lower California, rang and Dorn was told battle areas. During a later

there Maintains that the Pacific Fleet Stilwell, such

a tame exposes

rat Communist direction.

was an urgent call for me. He hus

that friend to danger of reprisal signment as Military Attache to

game after the Jops.

race continues, December 21 took it down and handed it to The Italians have worked it, the

[XYZ] name has been deleted. The Dutch promptly offer- the American Embassy in Peking,

and he learned to know Chinese of- | me. "The main Japanese battle out They say the Japs may be Wherever Stilwell, as command-setting worse ed their help to Dr. Hatta, se une military leaders of the fleet se 184 miles off San Fran consistered to be "yellow Aryana."

he ing general, records the short-stupidity. Now has plones the Prime Minister

and December 18 Admiral Yama- comings of United States officers, cisco. General alert of all units."

is "operating" In of the highest rank. During those years believed it, like a damn fool, moto, several years back, wrote Mrs. Stilwell has requested that acc

columns. Really was a sub at- Republic. The offer has of contact with both the common

the walked around

letter that when the Jap war the names of such offlects be tacit yesterday, been refused since the Re-citizens of China and leaders of

Or rather two. room In a

with the U.S. occurred, he did deleted unless the history of the Santa Cruz and off Eureka yes- Attacks on freighters near publican Government hopes well developed an intimate under-rise with all available troops, and Wake, and occupy Hawali name

wealth and position, General Stil. trying to figure what to do.

wild rush up to not want to merely take Guam war makes it essential that the

be retained,

terday, edlior The by itself. A state of emer-lying psychology of China,

seemed and San Francisco, His real has taken it upon himself to all Western gency has been proclaimed, General Stilwell's war journals to be to inform the Marines at

or translations of code that Stil- Navy? So we dashed out Washington, D.C.

December 17 on to Santa well frequently used. The

The Five Mexican destroyers com- against the Communists and of those years. They were put Vogel, calm, solid citizen who, Monien.

Saw Colonel Bran- parentheses in the text are those ing up from Panama to patrol Tan Malakka has been re-down for his own use. But to me although under forty-eight hours aircraft production focalised here Ret has been used, the bracketed come when we lean on the Mexi-

all jitters.

(One-hall our of Stilwell; but whenever a brac- Baja California, (The day hos leased from gaol to mobilise his gallant spirit lives only ball and do anything I told him. in eight plants.)

notice, agreed at once to play

Practically all material

explanation or con Navy!) Our naval force" his adherents in support of couraging me to bring his journals

to pubilention.

Then we phoned Army to check [the]heavy bombers. My God. translation supplied by the edl-based on San Diego is pitiful-- Even if the Government.

Winifred A. Stliwell

the position, December 18 on the language and

came in, and tor. Occasionally, writing for twelve PBYs, six fighters, ten these measures prove suc-

which by Intitude was 460 miles started his worries about Ter- his own eyes alone, Stilwell used bombers. About four destroyers

Island. He wanted cessful, however, it

out, instead of 100. Then Colonel minal

to the harsh descriptives of the for escort duty. That's all. the evacuate the Japanese Howard, Vogel's chief

Jap of staff, likely that the Dutch and the ON THE DAY

December 22 colony-at soldier. Knowint General Stil-

How struck at Pearl Harbour, the

things do wanted me to do it. well's reluctance to use such lon- fall on you out of a clear sky. Republicans will draw closer United States Armg

came in with Navy's estimate of least, he was seat- Jup force

How and Hawaiian

to where, waters.

he didn't l

guage publicly, the editor has at Hearn knocked on my door at together in the face of a tered thin along the Pacific (Four heavy ships, two to four know. Also, he was afraid the times cut or softened various 6:30 and said Bradley, was common danger.

Army and One

oll stocks at Torrance would be easily recognised phrases. Less the phone. He was. Bryden had aircraft carriers, eight destroyer anbotaged and ignited and that than half of General Stilwell's called from divisions-in all. Like the Government of some 100,000 men were

some subs.) They

Washington and Ruesand It

river of flame would

pour wartime writings Burma the Republican ad- from Puget Sound, south almost as they calmed me down some down through Wilmington, con- in this book; but what has been on a war plan, for some expedi- nre embodied am to shove off at once for work ministration has now lost its wo

miles to S*****

its path. published is Stilwell's alone, and tionary force which Bradley im- former illusions about the the homeland

Diego, responsible for defending enough to get to Dawley's cam-suming everything in

mand

without going

one gigantic holocaust. from an

To the fiberties mentioned above are plied I was to command. Ho uims of Moscow in whose first arsanit tes erpec

The first reaction to that news prevent this he wanted to de- the only brief nlterations of his emphasised the fact that I would South East Asia while the ed anywhere, any time, in "any was like a kick in the stomach claro a war zone east and west original script.

be

away for some time. (You and

enn bet on that.) the unthinkable realisation that along Imperial Boulevard for some time force. These wilts, in various

states of organisation and con- our defences were down, the north and south along

Atlantic

Packed up and shoved off at been gravely conerned at fusion, some half trained, ail !! enemy at hand, and that we not Boulevard) (three hundredt

1:35. Home at Ave. Talked and the spread of Communism. equipped, ungirt and scattered only had nothing to defend our square miles), combing the area fires on by a passing motorist. talked. All composed mentally.

removing them and (Probable fact-backẞre.) They have prohibited Com- on a peaceful Sunday morning. selves with, but that Time was for uliens,

thank God. Grand visit, wcre under the DICT-all

We could not slip ther comi- against us.

Report from Army that a preventing them from re- munist activities in territory mand

December 26 The family made of Lieutenant General the ammunition under-their-control-and-Dr. John L. DeWitt, commander of could we evacuate

in time,

How this was to be secret airfield had been reported it Christmas for me but the clock nor turning. "the" three done-he-did-not-know-told twenty-odd-miles north of Pulu- went too fast. Packed next day Van Mook, the Lieutenant the Fourth Army.

million people in this area..

him

to put some men at Tor-mar, the planes being concealed and off at 8:30-the family alt Had Major General Josephi Governor-General of Indone-

and prevent interference under alfalfa, and the probable at the front door to see me off. War, the Japs only known, they could rance теть Stilwell es senior incticul have landed sia, has cut short his con-commander

unywhere on the with the old storage there. We objective being the Consolidated Not teor in the crowd-just in California was coast, and after our handful of

ortalicer til midnight, by which [Aircraft] plant at San Diego. smiles and waves for good luck. sultations at The Hague to directly responsible to DeWitt. ammunition was gone, they could time he was pretty well calmed (An old feld where

the Ryan Reached Washington in bright direct

command security measures Stilwell's

Third Corps with

the have shot us like pigs in a pen down.

Company had some trainers.) sunshine, 4:00 p.m., Xmas Eve, headquarters from Batavia. In the wider

19 Flew 10 (We hui about ten million call- at Monterey and s

(One)-captain and his wife and Reported to Adjutant General. respon field, Dr. Stakker, the ability was the defence of the ber 30 rifle bullets), a few hun-Rogers at Muroc to see about re- daughters actually saw three Jap He knew

nothing. frontier of America

dred 758, and 260 155. Nu quest for guard: This is the Air planes at 12:43 a.m. on Decem- Netherlands Foreign Minis-sea

Saw Ho knew nothing. from trench mortars mi all. The Corps bombing range an the ber 9 9 outlined

against the through Lor

but that was to be expected. I ter, has been in close touch San Luis Obispo

Angeles to

Coast Artillery Command desert-seventy air miles from They were going to bomb never got anything out of hin with Dr. Evatt, Australian was an area of some five mil

at San San Diego, This Rosecrans ond (Ft) MacArthu Colonel Smith was much alarmed forethought to order a blackout, worry, at the moment was findin

Bernardine. Lieutenant minal Island but he had had the but allly giggles. His principal Minister for External Affairs, Hon people, containing more

about 180 rds. per (155 min. and Mr. Marshall, United than 75 per cent of the heavy gun and sufficient stuff for their over the defenceless state of his and he saw the planes become out whether or not to wear a

bomber plants of the United other guns.)

command; he was sure States Secretary of State, to States, some of its

"confused," then turn back. (N.B. black tle to dinner that night. Jap of sie-

course [the 401]

could fly in at any moment and This Is Army court

apparently the basis So I went to War Plans Division acquaint Australia

and the nificant oil production. a major passed the buck on this report. shoot his men' down. The En- of the "confused" report that the and found Gerow out but Elgent- United States with the Dutch naval base, and cut off from They had it from Д "usually gineer Battalion was leaving him Interceptor Command got excit howe

hower in. Latter gave me view of the gravity of the the rest of the county by desert absolutely reliable source," and he didn't see how he coulded about.)

Jolt about and mountain.

they should never have put it out get ditches dug for his men, to

(The) captain wanted Dawley make me feel Black. It didn't Communist menace.

any different from On the morning of Pearl without theck. They added that hide in. The only weapons avall to put a 75 on a tug and go out before, somehow, From there Mr. Bevin's

forthright Harbour Sunday. General and the Fourth Air Force had gone able were pistols, so he was fear

after a sub that he knew about. went down to the War College statement on September 15 Mrs. Stilwell were entertaining after the Japs, but they did not ful of a parachute attack that The captain had positive proof and saw Malony. clearly indicated where Bri- the officers of the Third Corps report results, which of

come in off carriers or that subs were lurking all about 24th staff at their Carmel home. It were negative.

course would

they hended me the * secret Then, when a from

base in Lower him from the frequent "sign first directive, for Dakar. tain stands. The Common-was the last "at haine." the Navy patrol scoured the area and California, and murder them all. tures" on his loops in the bay.

Pretty gloomy. Chow at wealth is determined to em- General promised his wife, that found nothing, they had to admit Or Japs from Los Angeles could General Ryan not only knew Pennsylvania Avenue with Smith ploy the maximum possible she would have to give for hin the repart was not dependable neak up and sabotage every that fights of Jap planes were and Dorn.. Had chow at deg- resources to protect South. A telephone

and I stopped at Encinitas to phone thing. The only remedy seemed over San Francisco, but explain wagon. answered 1. East Asia Lom the Com-was a friend calling-"Turn on

It Hearn, and he said then that the to be some Infantry to take care ed why they turned back and Letter to Mrs. Stilwell What

Navy had already reported of them.

The bulk of avaliable where they went. It seems they a brave pleture for a guy off to munist campaign. There is your radio," the friend said.

the Japs are

negatively.)

heavy bombers in the Army was were "homing" on the attacking

radiu who knows where or what. an evident case for concert-

Harbour.

December 13 Not content not reflected in his plan of de- broadcasts, and when these were meant ed action by the Western de- the news to her husband:

Mrs. Stilwell blurted with the above blah, [the 4th] fence, which left them and the turned off, they didn't know what there at the front door, every- lot to me to see you all. mocracles against the efforts party converged on the

Army pulled another at ten- magazine entirely outside hts to do, and so went away. (If body cheerful and facing the radio. There

thirty today. "Reliable Information cordon and was confined to the turning off the radio broadcasts music. of Moscow in inspiring to they fistened to the next flash; that attack on, Los Angeles is im- defence of a tent area where the will win the war, there will be ending to all this crazy business. Good omen for a good turn the nationalist aspira and then the party dissolved.

minent. A general alarm being personnel lived, However, Fourth no objection from me.)

and you sounded the note of tions of the peoples of South

Sometime that afternoon or con

considered." The old sinking Army has ordered us to send two

We may East Asia into channels that evening, General Stilwell found feeling again. Ammunition a companies of infantry

to the XYZ), Fineco: Rumours of optimism I needed.

Jap airfields in Lower have some dark times ahead. lead straight to anarchy.. If time to scribble the first entry little better, the 125th Regi- take care of him. (P.S. The California caused Army to or but I'm aura we are coming out this action is to succeed, hartime diaries. For the ment the in twenty-four hours, colonel has seen some auspicious ganise this expedition of six aups of it. This country is a slow

next three weeks hi total pre- and a division coming in ten signaling with Buchlights,)

who allegedly spoko Spanish starter, but it is full of guts, and whether In Malaya. or occupation was to be the or days.. Got what hope. I could This situation has produced Two battalions of Mexican in- we are going

to win. in Indonesia, care must genliction of the defence of the from that, and then decided to some other strange cases of fil- | fantry-were to be brought to Letter to Mrs. Stilwell Merry be taken to ensure that South Pacific Coast.

disbelieve the report. Of course, fers. Common sense is thrown Tia Juann over U.S. railways and Christmast Dorn and I went to a distinction is drawn be-

escor

[Lieutenant Colonel XYZ the War College and rend a lot December 7, 1941 Japs attack attack never materialised, to the winds and any absurdity

but a "general alarm" would is believed,

south on his soarch (roughly of stuff.. tween Communism on the Hawali, [Plan] Rainbow 5 In have been just as serious.

Then we had Christmas The The wild, farcical and fantastic fifty miles by eight hundred) dinner and a one hand and national lam 'an effect. Three p.m. Goode phoned plain truth is that it is not pos- stuff that G-2 Fourth Army Ailaison poat was to be set up, restaurant and dissipated fur- good one at a Jop doct 20 miles south, 10 miles the other.

sible to evacuate threo, million pushes out! The latest is a two-incidentally, (XYZ) to have scout ther by seeing Dumbo. I nearly Sent Dorn poople east, over waterless pound bundle of crap. An in-cars and dur assistance, The Communists owe much out for Monterey1.

Motor fell off my chair when the to [Ft.] · Ord to call off of their influence to the skill and alert garrison. Phoned Hearn been frightful casualties if a gen-fornia Tech., a distinguished re-furnished by us, cass of need. We sat through the Alm twice.

show desert, and there would have vestigation of a Ph.D. at Call-transport for the Mexicans, to be elephant pyramid toppled over. with which they have conto start reconnaissance. Phoned eral exodus had started. fused their own plan to seize Hicom to have Dom call enlisted fackass would sound a "general a service from California Tech. Christ. The question quickly

What search man in weather, who runs] [XYZ]' to energise the Mex hush and rightly so. “Just ・ goʻ The job I have is very hush- men back to camp.

alarm" under the circumstances? for orange growers. He volun- came who power with genuine aspira

to energise along being 9.30 phoned White at Ord. The Fourth) Army G-2 is just tarily discontinued his broadcast (XYZ). His arst request was to as

ns.much salves, tions to self-government, now White to send reconnaissance another amateur, like

can do, and all the when the war broke out, but be, made a full colonel, so he more than most. T try and so widely cherished by the

rest of the staff, Rule: the higher (G-2] had him investigated by could have more face. Well, the keep you

you informed much as peoples among whom they

the hendquarters, the more imine frantic struggle of the count 'em-seven generals, and that everybody here is most Mexicans arrived with seven possible. You can depend on it work: and is important standing with the Indonesian portant I calm. Nothing should that the Western demo Republic which is now oblig ever as bad as it seems, at first. DeWitt's forecast of danger in changes

'go out unconfrined. Nothing is Army, staff, to justify General then the fireworks began. Three helpful and cordial, in spite of

in command in three the loads they are carrylog cracies-should-help-and noted to take up its stand on But twelve million 30 calibre -Alaska has patered-out Whien days Objections to (XYZ) go the tremendous job head, Vary hinder new national move the side of orderly progress bullets] in hands of troops and they got down to one submarine ing armed, going in uniform, go thing is going to be OK and ments that have come into by this latest manlicatation three million in reserve. The four hundred miles northeast of us at all. Messages back and you are a big factor in making being. The Dutch would be of the whole sinister Com- we have two battalions along the December 20 Report from Mittelstadt, to Army.

125th [Regiment] due to-night. Hawall, that was the end, a forth to. Mexico City, to us, to me belleve it. I hope you all had well advised to make a fresh munist plan for revolution copat. Two battalions radlood for Coast Artillery Commandser=

#gorgeous Christmas. [XYZ] - bucking; and · filling, effort to reach an under-lin - South East Asia,

Const. Artillery, Command: de- geant: that his post had been asking for planes, then miore

true

Dulch have

Mrs. Stilwell

mosi

rang,

Pearl

the

nearest

pause

has

the

+

but un

December

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up

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was

moum

and

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That

was the

(To Be Continued)"'"

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