A brooding quiet settled over Indonesia. It was the quiet of a faintly smoking volcano. Here & there snipers' rifles cracked. But mostly the British and Dutch sat waiting behind their guns in strongholds of European authority like Batavia, Surabaya, Semarang, Bandung. Beyond these cities, in the rich hinterland of Java, under the red-&-white flag of the Indonesian Republic, the nationalist leaders of 50,000,000 people were also marking time.
The onetime masters and onetime colonials were waiting for Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the East Indies Acting Governor General. In London and The Hague, determined Dr. Van Mook had pressed...
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