COMPLAINT TO UNO ON INDONESIA

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25249, 30 July 1947, Page 7

COMPLAINT TO UNO ON INDONESIA

Indian Move Awaited In New York

SYMPATHY EXPRESSED IN COUNCIL DEBATE

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(R<?C it 10 ; 3 ? ’’’"9 „ NEW YORK, July 28 United Nations officials expect that India will file a formal complain on the Indonesian question with the Security Coun«T in Washington but TaiTThat** up "to 1 * ®"ix assy * instructions had been received. up to to " ni Bht no A clash occurred to-dav when Mr n ir v u .. . KJ ‘d h e«£ hMeIZT sympathy with the Indonesians and also denounced? “the ffiMa” b Mr S , Upi ’ rcss independence moves J on the announ JmenJby ' PandH Nehru "n New’ DelhTthlwhe SKZ st credit of the United States and other Western democracies that they ha\e let India take the first action, nor will this add to the white man’s prestige in Asia.

, a “ Th i e h tter of Pandit Nehru and other Asiatic C h a a e fL n trh“± ar r d W . ar being Waged in Indonesia shows that the Dutch have stirred up more of a hornets’ nest than they probably counted on. There is much to be In aX by co-operation. The day has passed, or at least is nearing its end, when the West can impose its ideas by force.” S

The New York “Herald-Tribune,” deploring that, regardless of the merits of the Dutch case, too little attention has been given it in the United States, sets out in a leading article the reasons the Dutch have given for their military action. It says, however, that these reasons will not be acceptable to the many Americans who sympa- * . stron sly with the aspirations of Asiatic peoples to rule themselves. •‘But sympathy will have little re*u!t, and the prospect seems to be that the Dutch will soon be in firm control of Java again,” adds the “HeraldTribune. “Then of course will come

the real test of the Dutch cese. The insistence of the Dutch that their T? ce fe nt and that they xf ld h to tlle Cheribon agreement sl i own . t ° be true or false. 1 heir temptation of course will be repeat of almost every S?° S war ln £ sia - In most such wars Europeans have declaimed that £ e <- a tl! ng tro P the flnest °f mo- ? c S ons almost invarih ave belied their words. If the down their machine-guns er , they regam power in Java and then keep their promise to grant Indonesia self-government, they will deserve high praise.”