at Happens Next
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Editorial...
at Happens Next ndonesia?
EKARNO, peeved by UNO’s re jection of Indonesia’s silly West New Guinea claim, is out lering Nasser. tsser, angered by American re l to finance his Nile dam, d the Canal. Britain and France 2d armed forces to Suez to re the theft. America drove them again, and left the thief nphant.
Dekarno now (Dec. 9) has ordered 0 Dutchmen out of Indonesia, is seizing their property, worth hundred millions of pounds, mulated in 350 years of in rial development, turally, the Dutch are going to t. What happens now? More • interference? Another Eisen \v “Doctrine”? ft alone, the Dutch could put the nesians back in their place with iump. But will they be left i? stralia is a more-than-interested ator. And, through New Guinea, las a front-grandstand seat.
Consistently, since the 1946-48 d, when the Anglo-Americans doned their Dutch allies and Hed the J a p-n o min at ed arno, “PIM” has directed at on to the dangers inherent in sprawling, irresponsible and ■rical “Republic”, right on our frontier. May we now say to readers, We told you so?