1949-11-05 — Page 9

INDONESIAN PREMIER DISAPPOINTED OVER HAGUE CONFERENCE

ACHESON SUPPORTS NEW STATE

Washington, November, 3. The US Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, said today the United States is studying ways and means of giving aid to the new Republic of United Indonesia.

The new state can count upon the sympathy and support of all who believe in

and democracy the right of self-government. Mr.

Acheson said.

In A

statement hailing the Netherlands - Indonesian

agree- ment setting up the Republic. in the former Dutch dependency the Secretary said:

"For

United part, the States is engaged in study of ways and means by which it may be of assistance, should such assistance be requested."

its

The Hague, November 3.

The Prime Minister of East Indonesia, Anak Agung Gde Agung, said today he felt deep regret and disappointment because the New Guinea problem had not been solved at the round table conference on Indonesia.

The failure to agree on New Guinea, he said, had cast a shadow on the co-operation within the Netherlands-Indonesian Union.

He urged that negotiations to settle the problem

be started as soon as possible after the trans fer of sovereignty as it remains an inexor able demand on the Indonesians' side that it should belong to Indonesia. The Prime Minister sug- gested that New Guinea, which lies just East of East Indonesia, might be the first subject to be taken up at the

first conference of Union Ministers.

Dutch disappointment at the conference results was first pressed by the resignation from the Dutch delegation last night of M.H.J.WR. Meyerink, anti-revo- lutionary Member of Parliament, because the delegation Chairman refused

let him make a to

a state- ment at closing the

session. Noting the courageous manner

M. Meyerink's position is that in which the

Indonesian RC- publicans suppressed a Commu- he does not oppose transfer of

but feels that nist revolt last September. Mr. sovereignty Acheson said that the Indonesian should not be transferred before Indonesia "has a political organi- people may be expected success-

sation capable of taking over all fully to resist all efforts DA

connected with powers. aggressive forcing dictatorships

transfer." to subvert their newly won inde- pendence.

the

While Mr. Acheson made no mention of speciña measures of aid, other officials have said the Hague agreement made Indonesians again eligible for Economic Co. help from the operation Administration. The ECA European recommended. some

be granted to the

Council $37,000,000 Netherlands for use in Indonesia before the new Republic assumes sovereign- ty two months bence. Associated

Press.

Political Amnesty Granted

it

that

The moderate side of the Dutch press today welcomed the suc- cessful ending of the conference but sounded a note of reserve.

Sultan Anxious

Burma Rice Crop Cut

Rangoon, November 3 Civil war has cut Burma's

The rice crop.

nation will have a small surplus for ex- port in 1950.

Minister, The Agriculture Mr. Ba Gyan, said the civil war has prevented wide cul- livation, of rice. Consequent- ly the crop is reduced.

How much Burma will be able to export will be deter- mined in a forthcoming Gov- ernment survey. Mr. Ba Gyan

·asmmented: "The outlook is not very encouraging."——As - rociated Press.

be submitted.

But in spite of the difficulties ahead, he did not think that at tempts to find a solution would fail, any more than the Federalist States would S

to ultimately fail

of the ratify the agreements round-table conference. to

The Indonesian Federalist de legation is returning to Indo- nesia with "great anxiety face expected protests against the fact

New Netherlands that Guinea has not been included in the territory of the new State, Sultan Hamid leader of the delegation, said here

Loday,

or that the of Pontianak,

*

am not afraid of that." The leader of the Dutch dele- gation. Dr. J. H. Van Maarse-

THE CHINA· MAIL - SATURDAY, “ NOVEMBER 5, 1948.

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

Still Belief In Britain

The bomb, baseball, Bogart, and Bevin have New York running a slight fever. After 7,000 miles of transcontinental calmness (excepting Holly wood) I find the city taut

The first thing I saw when I

strolled down` Park-avenue was

pig-beaded

and stubborn and I panicked the country, but it has dim-witted in our nationalisation stepped up its defence prepara- plans, but we rate high. The Lion and increased its need for British are respected.

Britain as its ally.

Americans look to us as their only really dependable partners. and Allies. They think we have know slipped dangerously, they we are poor and getting poorer, but they are convinced we have the brajas, ability, and charac-

ter to snap out of the decline.

Mildly Indignant.

a line of placard-carrying pickets outside the Waldorf-Astoria. They chanted: "Boycott Britain -Bundle Bevis back to Britain." Five weeks ago this demonstra- tion would have upset me, but

The real America is not selling now I know that there are no- anti-British pickets in Kansas Britain short. It is not particu- City, none in Salt Lake City.larly disturbed about the money Sanit has poured out-most people

Done in Los - Angeles Francisco,

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Dolore

The first thing I read was an editorial recommending no dollars for the British seekers.

dole

A month ago this would have raised my

blood-pressure, but now I know that in the Middle West and Far West scarcely any Americans share this view.

Outside New York. The first speech I glanced at **25 ап Isolationist "effort of Senator Robert Taft urging the severance of ties with Europe. In early September this would have been disturbing, but now I know that Independence, Mis- souri, and Carson City, Nevada, have little time for Mr. Tatt's

opinions.

The real America lies outside New York. When New York gets excited America remains caire. When New York shouts abuse America talks friendship. When New York issues orders America makes suggestions.

said they had felt the load at all-it is only mildly indignant

Socialism British

about.

knows it has to get along with Britain, and proposes to do so the best way it can.

The bomb has made pulses race faster in Manhattan, but the rest of the country remains tran- quil. They are used to disasters in the Far West,

There is, unfortunately.

There is no apprehension there. almost complete ignorance of the that the British helped to invent

fact

the borib, and, in tack, knew far

more about atomic fission than the Americans up to the time of Pearl Harbour. But then there is much ignorance all over the American continent about British achievements.

I had

hard time ing to convince a friendly hotel

in Reno try-

alerk that radar was a British invention and that we are very much Imuch ahead of America in jet-

alverafi. propelled

Our dismal appropriation of credit, publicity efforts,

American ation of credit, should be blamed for this ign

this ignorance: two big news develop ments of recent years the Rus- is sheer nonsense. These sian possession of the atom bomb people are most friendly, cam- and the devaluation of the Bri dinarily generous. and pletely cordial,

seethes with anti-British feeling The idea that the United States an idea which is implicit in the editorials of the New York Dals News" and the

"Chicago Tri-

ekador.

As a people, then, we are res- pected and admired. As business mess men our standing is not so high We are considered fair traders in Chicago, Kansas City and Los Angeles. Our packaging and our salesmanship are written down as out of date. The quality of our goods is criticised as falling of

Drive is Missing

Our prices before devaluation were said to be too high. And now that drastic devaluation has come we are thought to have when Anglo-missed the boat

were

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left this city American relations looked strained and jangled as at any time since the war. The ambi "Do not be too gloomy", he tious assignment was to find out

Weat said. "and think that there will

Americans

really be chaos in Indonesia now that thinking. So the trip was made it has cut loose from Holland, by train, plane, car, in trams and and Federalist States ferries, on foot, horseback, will be dominated by the Indo-bicycle. nesian Republic. I personally About 600 people were talked

to, listened to, cajoled, examined, and noted down. They included governors, mayors, busi- veen, said today that a reasonableness men, engineers, flm stars. basis acceptable to both parties show giris, Pullman conductors had been laid for peaceful co- and hash house owners, barten

and operation.

ders and waiters, taxi-drivers Dr. Van Maarseveen, who is clerks, gambiers, divorcees, fisher-

Overseas Territories men

nuners, maids, college the Dutch

lawyers, DEWS- Minister, added, "if I state that I giris, matrons, am satisfied with the conference

paper men, croupiers, British off- and results this does not mean that cials, Negroes, Mexicans,

Puerto Ricans. the Dutch delegation would not have rather seen a diferent sulu- tion to various subjects."

the Dutch people could never spiritually adapt themselves

Indonesian

Sultan Hamid said that the "explicit mandate" of his dele- gation had been to "hold fast to New Guinea, and they were

time hard going to have "calming" the home govern ments. The Dutch delegation, he went on, had not been unfavourably disposed towards the idea that this territory should pass to the

in while State

practice Netherlands administration should continue.

new

Batavia, November 3. The Dutch today gave am- nesty to several thousand politi-eth cal prisoners.

The amnesty grant was direct- ed to all persons who had com- mitted

But as the Dutch delegation had been aware that the Nether- lands Parliament would

prepared

to

for

respole with the

From All Sections

The

tish £-have not shaken the United States, at least not yet.

During the long journey i also investigated recession, but in most of the places I visited it had receded before I

arrived. Chi- cago thrives, Los Angeles enjoys a riotous boom, Hollywood pro- duction is soaring Kansas City is prosperous and stable. Salt Lake City Bourishes under the Mormons, Reno is on a gambling rampage.

is see massive,

Not Even A Shiver Only San Francisco, for local strikes-feels reasons- mainly

s pinch, and the tourist trade The American business manallays the pain there. assumed that, once devaluation The America I have was announced, Britain

confident, would prosperous, make a

a tremendous "drive for the and strong American market

The bomb, baseball, Bogart, Vigorous sell-

have put ing campaigns arresting adver- and Mr. Bevin may tisements

American news-New York's

edge. papers and magazines, and shock They haven't even sent a shiver

the

spine of the real troops of salesmen by the plane down

were expected None Di America. this has happened.

Footnote: More important than the devalued £ or the deflated bomb is an atom sense.

load

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Sir Stafford Cripps has failed to call in British business men or else they have failed to call on

im

see

Even here in New York I no evidence that we are exploit- ing the expanded market except a modest announcement or two about cuts in the prices of Bri tish

cars, tweeds, and pipes. We

to ́appear

be doing almost nothing.

On this initia! showing we will garner not. more collars but lewer. We will end up after devaluation worse than before it

Cripps himself has been pricked. Many Americans think he should resign,

"misdemeanors ciestly ("have accepted such a solution, the hanged situaties and the Americans from all States of these prestige of Sir Stafford emanating from political conflict" between the Netherlands and In- donesia. The

from the Palace of the Dutch High Com- missioner said the pardons would be effective on Friday.

announcernen.

With the release of about 2,000 Indonesian prisoners, arranged under the United Nations military truce, almost all persons imprison ed for political views will go free. --Associated Press.

BEVIN-SFORZA MEETING

was

between as era-

they had had to stand firm on their flat rejection of it"

The Sultan afraid tha: a certain group of people" would endanger co-operation Holland and Indonesia bodied in the Union "by pictur- ing New Guinea as a land promise for the Dutch".

Once there these people would want to have their Own guage, culture and

of

lan-

institutions

their greatest energy, the difficulties of the change-over could be mounted, he said.

sur-

He was of the opinion that the provisions of the Nether- lande-Indonesian- Union statute were in conformity with Netherlands Constitution.

the

Asked why he had chosen “cul- tural co-operation" as the theme

plenary session on

me

Most of them were native-born

Union, from all walks of life. and of all shades of opinion.

Some, such as the waiters and taxi-drivers seeking large

а

tip, probably told

what they thought I wanted to hear. Others perhaps didn't want to offend a travelling individual Englishman. But I think that on the whole got honest opinions, honestly expressed And those should comfort you

The British are still highly blun- ders, our reckless Socialism, our continual borrowing our inept inconsistency showmanship, our and timidity we rate high.

and gradual separation from the of his speech at the cless thought of: Despite ou

that

while the

Wednesday. United States of Indonesia would Dr. Van Maarseveen said it had take place.

been agreed beforehand that he He thought, however, that the present Dutch Government would would do so and that the Re- do its best to solve this problem, publican leader would speak of

results, the political Sultan Hamid said Paris, November 3. Mr. Ernest Bevin, the British Indonesians hoped that the pre-Federalist leader would speak on

the military results-Beuter. Foreign Secretary, and Coat sent Government would remain.

of the composition Carlo Sforza, the Italian Foreign The compo Minister, talked together at the delegation had been French Foreign Ministry before "the atmosphere remained good today's session of the Committee even

of Ministers, of the Europe.

En in the most

Dutch Such that

discuit

Council of sked what solution be

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per-

Federalist

No subject of the conversation sonally had in mind for the New was officially available but dip-Guinea problem, the tomatic observers believe that leader said, "Let us have New ad- both Ministers wished to talk Guinea but let the Dutch over outstanding Anglo-Italian minister it for 100 years”.

.If no solution to the New differences which have lately given. a widespread impression Guinea problem were found in saw the that relations between the two the year allotted, he countries had deteriorated. United Nations as the most likely Retter.

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