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[?]nesians in N. Guinea
5 retention of Western New luinea by the Dutch is of more nportance to Australia than it the Dutch, e Dutch, probably, would gladly nder their portion of the rough nhospitable island to Indonesia, turn for a guarantee that their very considerable investments idonesia are left intact, ibably, the only nations which lly covet New Guinea, for ment and colonisation, are in The occupation of New Guinea, dumping-ground for 20 or 30 ms of surplus population, was of Japan’s master-plan, when sprang at the Westerners’ ts on December 6, 1941. s not colonisation, but security, i makes New Guinea of vital rn to Australia and the South ic countries. While New Guinea Id by Europeans (Australians
in the east, Dutch in the west) the great island can be regarded as a sort of barrier against Asia—as it was in 1942-44.
But once let Indonesians in there and the whole situation changes’
Indonesians, as fighters, would be about as dangerous as a row of magpies. But Asian Communists armed and aggressive, could climb southwards over the shoulders of Indonesians in New Guinea, just as they are already travelling south wards across the Indonesian masses in Java.