Dutch Ng Council
p. 19 · Read in the full issue
"This Year"
NETHERLANDS Interior Min ister E. Toxopeus told the Dutch Parliament on April 6 (as PIM was going to press), that a New Guinea Council with a majority of Papuan members would be estab lished in NNG before September.
This would be “the beginning of self-government”. Holland could not yet fix a date for total independence.
He said the conception of a Mel anesian union involving NNG should be considered as a “future pos sibility”, but the population would decide this. (See p. 19).
It was also announced a corps of Papuan army volunteers would be established this year.