JAVA NEGOTIATIONS

Grey River Argus, 31 January 1946, Page 3

JAVA NEGOTIATIONS

Van Mook and Natives BATAVIA, January 29. Governor van Mook, broadcasting, appealed to the Dutch and Indonesians to think and act in a constructive spirit. He said whoever identified this constructive thought with the desire for resumption of the old order or retention of colonial in-, terests, understood neither the new Netherlands nor the new Indonesia. The Netherlands as an entity was ready to realise the complete partnership promised by Queen Wilhelmina three years ago, but the ideal must be accepted by both sides and violence ended forthwith.

Governor van Mook will present a 15-point plan he brought from Holland to Premier Sjahrir, the first week in February—immediately Sir A. Clark-Kerr arrived —stated Reuter’s correspondent, who added that Governor van Mook on arrival said there was much greater agreement in Holland about the necessity of achieving full self-government than might apear on the surface .