[?]Tile, Emotional

[?]herlands New Guinea

[?]Donesian Claim

[?]Lled

[?]Tile, Emotional

DONESIA’S claim to Nether lands New Guinea was “so rly unreasonable, futile, incon lential and emotional” that there ht be an inclination to dismiss it i a shrug of the shoulders if it e not that artificially aroused iments in very young countries r easily run out of hand, and if onialism” were not such an :tive battlecry in some parts of world. he statement was made by the herlands Ambassador to Aus ia (Mr. A. M. L. Winkelman) in course of an address to the ton Rotary Club. NSW, on April he Netherlands had consistently ited out that the Indonesian m was not based on law, history ethnology, said Mr. Winkelman. , r as based on nationalistic senti it and political opportunism and being used by President tarno as a means to keep his “empire” together and to draw attention of his followers away i the terrific unsolved problems ndonesia.

Ve are more sad than angry the artificially-fanned agitation [ndonesia for the conquest of lerlands New Guinea”, the lassador continued. “It saddens 0 see political leaders, for whom have the highest regard, being ed to jump on the anti-colonial Iwaggon. We all know that colonialism they and we all 3se is as dead as a doornail”.

R. WINKELMAN said that the complex problem of Nether lands New Guinea presented rely different aspects to a iber of countries. )r the Netherlands the accent on the moral obligation of an dnistering Power towards a -self-governing territory; for )nesia on the desire for terri il aggrandisement; for Australia the vital need for strategic rity; for the United States on ope to offend neither a reliable tern ally nor a youne country 1 dangerous part of the world, for Communist China on a 2y to elminate Western influence outh-east Asia. f the territory itself, he said; i are not committed to make r Guinea into a modern, efficient, ily-developed democracy within next generation. . . . But we are :entrating our attention on the

solution of the many difficulties encountered there and we feel that the inhabitants have full confidence in our leadership, because they are already beginning to see results.

We are determined to try to avoid mistakes made during the last 50 years in other areas in Africa and Asia”. t The Rev. Father J. Dubois, SM, well known at most Catholic Mission stations in Fiji through 25 years’ service in the area, recently cele brated the silver jubilee of his ordination.

t The Netherlands Geographical Society is actively planning a scientific expedition to the Eastern part of the Central Mountains of Netherlands New Guinea. Govern ment will help. In view of the in accessibility of the area, plans and preparations will take some time. t TEAL announced late in March that its present three New Zealand Directors, Sir Leonard Isitt (chair man), Mr. T. A. Barrow, and Mr.

Norman Spencer, have been re appointed for a further three-years’ term. The decision was made at a Cabinet meeting in Wellington.