existed from the end of World as repeating “what Hitler did to the Netherlands in 1940,” Hodgson called the sneak Dutch blitz “the first clearcut deliberate violation of the UN charter made so far by any member.” He said the conse- quences must “be expulsion (of Hol- land) from the UN.” All honest people, will hope that the UN has the guts both to do this and to force Dutch withdrawal from the attacked country, it was not only the Dutch trigger- men who killed the republic, how- ever. In this murder there were ac- cessories before the event. Some na- tions shot down Indonesians them- Selves, Some armed and financed the Dutch. Some, in the UN, block- ed preliminary action to stop the crime when intention to commit it Was already plain. Some, not for- eigners, but Indonesians, disarmed their own people who had fought So bravely from 1945-47 so that they could no longer fight in 1948. All shared in the responsibility — and the fact that they may now be sorry, or even suffer from the ef- fects of their own guilt, hardly changes the case. The UN now has a formal case against the Dutch. The Indonesian people will remem- ber the others. The nation that shot down Indo- hnesians is Britain. British troops landed in the country, whose 71 mil- lion people proclaimed independ- ence after Japan fell, in September 1945. They used not only their own troops but also Japanese garrisons Australian delegate W/. F. Hod Indonesia-betrayed at home and abroa By iSRAEL EPSTEIN The Dutch have murdered the Indonesian republic, at least as. it War II until just the other day. gson described the Dutch surprise attack correctly to the United Nations Security Council December 23 Seize key republican centers, These were later handed over to the Dutch, who had retained no foot- holds in Indonesia after they lost it to Japan. The theory was that the Dutch, who had used force to squeeze wealth out of Indonesia for 300 years, were still its “rightful own- ers.” That the British did not hand over more was due’ to two factors: staunch Indonesian resistance and a UN resolution, introduced by the Soviet Ukraine, noting that Britain was still using Japanese ex-enemies against a friendly people... The’ British later withdrew. The newly-arrived Dutch forces who took over the job in 1946 were largely marines trained and equip- in Camp Lejeune and other US. marine bases during the war. The Dutch used arms from American lend-lease stocks, which were supposed to be for war against Japan and Germany only. When this was publicly brought to the attention of then Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, he direct- ed that U.S. insignia be removed from such equipment. That, of course, did not make those wea- pons any less deadly, nor reduce ~~ ... u “eT ~~. SRRANG DEPOK . e@ BUITENZORG eens SUMATRA : . BANDUNG A V ee ee ine eS | AAAS DOPE Sosy Gooey i ef SAMARANG Se A MaGEtanG ® ae SURAKARTA JOGIAKA RTA ieee: AMBARAWA in Madiun, Java, was actually a their East Indies colonial The U.S. state department en- tered into an agreement with the Dutch and Indonesian Republican sovernments to stage a fake rising as an excuse to take measures to destroy the Communist Party. This was recently revealed here in a speech made by S. de Groot, general secretary of the Dutch Communist Party. empire. U.S. responsibility, (In addition the Dutch obtained the bulk of the equipment of the Canadian army in Flanders.— Ed.) Indonesian resistance was still strong, however. The Dutch were De Groot stated that the three Indonesian workers’ parties had decided in August to hold a fusion congress on October 1-3. The tone of the draft resolution which was to have been discussed at the con- gress indicated the desire of the Gommunist Party for peaceful col- U.S. intriguea with Indonesians, Dutch, to suppress left wing —AMSTERDAM Reports from Indonesia establish the ‘sensational fact that the “revolt” place recently prove conclusively how thoroughly the Dutch I which took which the United States played a leading imperialists plotted their Provocation in part Campaign to regain full control of Terror in Malaya recalls — occupation by Japanese _ By BRUCE STANTON — Swaggering slow-moving police, young British troops which had technically “surrender- ed” but still had their arms, to US approves cartel deals —FRANKFURT Big prewar German industrial trusts have resumed cartel agree- ments to control the world market With the approval of U.S. occupa- tion authorities, witnesses before a Special U.S. Army commission charged here. Richardson Bronson, head of the military government decentralization group, Passed one Such agreement, despite American and British legal opinion that it _ Violated occupation directives, the ’ Witnesses said. The case in which Bronson is in- volved concerns the Robert Bosch Ombine, manufacturers of eelc- trical machines, Bosch made an illegal pact with the Industrial Products Trading Company of Zur- further embarrassed by refusal of Australian, Egyptian, Indian and even Dutch dock workers to load or refuel vessels carrying troops and arms to the South Pacific. The Dutch now felt they had to be “reasonable,” at least for a while. In the Linggadjati agreement of March 1947, they left the republic alone in parts of three islands. While fooling the willing western world with an outward appearance of conciliation, they increased their garrisons and grew fat on hundreds of millions of Marshall plan dol- lars, They also found some native puppets whom they installed to “govern” Dutch-occupied areas to prove that the republic did not real- ly represent the people. ‘ Then they attacked again, a move | that prompted Indonesian ex-Pre- mier Sutan Sjahrir to write for Allied Labor Uews on September 18, 1947: “The Dutch cannot contin- ue if the U.S. withdraws all back- ing.” The backing remained. The attacks continued, broken only by truces in which the Dutch conced- ed nothing. It was from this point that Sjah- ich, Switzerland, assigning the lat- ter exclusive sales rights for Bosch Products in Argentina, Brazil, Bul- Saria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hun-} Sary, Denmark, Iceland, Iraq, Mex- eo, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Weden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ugoslavia, rir, Soekarno, Hatta and other re- pubilean chiefs began to show weak- ness., Instead of building the strength of their peoples, they tried to make themselves “acceptable’ to Marshall planners and private enterprise. Ignoring the lesson of all Asia, they did not introduce land ,, The “Swiss” company was fur- ther found to be a dummy concern, : ned to “sell” its products to organized by Bosch itself, Bosch he dummy company at very low ces so that U.S. dollar profits : be accumulated to Bosch’s Credit outside Germany. The U.S. commission here is also 4 iuiring into meetings: between Amer ican occupation chief General Lucius D. Clay and some of his i at which decisions were made Serie break up the German VKF locneesting trust and Henschel Otive and tank trust. reform to give Indonesian peasants real gains to defend. Fearing “red” smears, they knuckled under to lo- eal right-wing groups. These opened 1948 with measures against unions, leftists and real and alleged Communists, to show their respectability. By September 1948 the left, headed by ex-Premier Sjarifuddin, was driven to revolt to save both itself and the spirit of militant anti-Duteh resistance. The republican leaders turned all their armed forces from the Dutch front to smashing the left. Only two months later the ll these German companies in- were up to their necks in azi regime, helped Hitler to and produced essential war rials for his armies at high’ Preat. Nevertheless, the Bosch car- . steement was approved not ‘¢ >Y. Bronson but also by the State department. Dutch, who ceculd make little headway with their full strength in previous years, took the demor- : alized Indonesian capital with a detail of paratroopers. The gul- were jailed. If the UN does not remove the Dutch now, only a new popular movement with new leaders can—and ultimately will. ported laboration with other political groups in the struggle for national | independence and liberty. | It asked for measures to raise | { production and strengthen the re- public, It proposed a reform of gov- ernment administration, abolition of the remnants of feudalism and moderate agrarian reform, De Groot then disclosed that at} the beginning of July a secret meet- a ing took place in the village of Sarangan, , southwest between President Minister Hatta and an American named Ogburne, who at the time was a Member. of the United Na- tions Good Offices Committee and| re who served as affair. x At the meeting Ogburne promised on behalf of the U.S. government to supply arms for use in a drive against the Communists. In return for consenting to re- ceive American instructors for the republican army Hatta was prom- ised American Support for his can- didature in the Dutch-proposed fed- eral government. Announcement of the proposed fusion of the workers’ parties made a drive against the Com- munists an urgent task for the Americans, From the time of this decision clashes took place, mostly organ- ized by Trotskyites, and there were shootings of strikers. These events culminated in the Madiun provoca- tion. On the day of the events in Ma- diun, Java, several members of the volitical bureau of the Communist Party, including the secretary, Maroetso Daroesman, were arrest- ed in Jogjakarta. The Gommunist Party was de- clared illegal and parliament strip- ped of the left-wingers who com- prised 50 percent of its member- ship, became a tool in the hands of the Hatta group. De Groot said the plan to destroy the Communist Party had failed, however, and it remained the lead- ing force in the struggle of the 70 million Indonesians for liberty and national independence, Nevertheless, reports from In- donesia state that a number, of Communists, including several leaders, were murdered following the Madiun affair. Maroetso Dar- oesman, general secretary, was re- “killed in action.” Other Sources, however, state that he was —SINGAPORE noisy seem regime have been arrested as the, - monopolistic rubber and tin barons !€ad to a lowering of the use force to keep the “people in | Morale. | An the coffee shops police boast force’s devastating defeat here anese proved the | nature of the colonial system. ,The recently arrived British sol- iers are still to “civilize” Under the Japanese the force was trained and enlarged. The most a go-between in this} modern methods of oppression were learned, Japanese The mised to purge the police but the promise was not carried out poverty and subjection, Apparently | they haven't Jearned that Britain's loudly of tortures inflicted on al. we ee legea Communists. The es phir ia in which the police are held has _ made the British offer various inducements for enlistment to get an adequate contingent, Only the To date British troops have not _ been involved in attacks on the people, but progressives fee] that | shortly there will be a revival of incidents which occurred in 1946. The British soldiers have been told they are going into “enemy” terri- _ tory. It is ironical that the local European business men whom they on | have come “to save from terrorists” including some quaint torture techniques. British government pro- murdered after being captured by srounds that mass dismissals would ‘bar them from clubs and hotels. — AFTERMATH OF UPRISING French deputies tortured —PARIS rising in Madagascar _ Nearly 18 months ago, an attempted was savagely suppressed by the French African deputies representing ber of Deputies were seized after their had been Suspended, and were taken island. It was Strongly urged in France that justice could only be : Mines, Lie trial were Leld-in Yrande and not in tha prosaiine atmosphere of Antananarivo, The government refused and the | trial is proceeding in Madagascar. x ee taking place in Madagascar precedent in the French colonial empire. government police.