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70. Laurens van der Post, The admiral’s baby (London, 1996), p. 225.
71. F. S. V. Donnison, British military administration in the Far East (London, 1956), pp. 413–24.
72. Frederick, ‘The man who knew too much’, p. 51.
73. Van der Post, The admiral’s baby, p. 220.
74. Anthony Reid, ‘Pictures at an exhibition’, in Antöv and Tønesson (eds.), Imperial policy, p. 15.
75. Yong Mun Cheong, H. J. van Mook and Indonesian independence: a study of his role in Dutch–Indonesian relations, 1945–48 (The Hague, 1982), pp. 8–23.
76. As shown in a new and detailed study of the campaign, published since this account was completed: Richard McMillan, The British occupation of Indonesia, 1945–1946: Britain, the Netherlands and the Indonesian Revolution (London, 2005), revised from his ‘The British occupation of Indonesia, 1945–46’, unpublished PhD dissertation, London University, 2002.
77. Alberic Stacpoole, ‘Christison, Sir (Alexander Frank) Philip, fourth baronet (1893–1993)’, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Oxford, 2004; http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/51563, accessed 12 Sept. 2005.
78. Christison to Mountbatten, 13 October 1945, CAB119/191, TNA. See also Kahin, Nationalism and revolution in Indonesia, pp. 141–2.
79. SACSEA to Chiefs of Staff, 15 October 1945, CAB119/191, TNA.
80. ‘Report on morale of British, Indian and Colonial troops of ALFSEA, November 1945–January 1946’, WO203/4539, TNA.
81. Testimony of William H. Maaskemp, in Jan A. Krancher (ed.), The defining years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942–1949: survivors’ accounts of Japanese invasion and enslavement of Europeans and the revolution that created free Indonesia (London, 1996), p. 84.
82. Abu Hanifah, Tales of a revolution, pp. 194–8. See also McMillan, British occupation of Indonesia, pp. 156–64.
83. Anthony Reid, The blood of the people: revolution and the end of traditional rule in Northern Sumatra (Kuala Lumpur, 1979), p. 167.
84. Kahin, Nationalism and revolution, pp. 142–4.
85. Roadnight, ‘Sleeping with the enemy’.
86. Takao Fusayama, A Japanese memoir of Sumatra: love and hatred in the liberation war (Ithaca, 1993), pp. 102, 136–7; Reid, The blood of the people, pp. 166–9, 195.
87. Dening to Foreign Office, 3 October 1945, CAB119/191, TNA.
88. Dening to Cabinet, 24 October 1945, CAB121/698, TNA.
89. SACSEA to Cabinet, 14 October 1945, CAB119/191, TNA.
90. SACSEA to chiefs of staff, 16 October 1945, ibid.
91. We have here drawn chiefly on Frederick, Visions and heat, pp. 263–9, and Anderson, Java in a time of revolution, pp. 151–66.
92. Idrus, ‘Surabaja’, p. 1.
93. Timothy Lindsey, The romance of K’tut Tantri and Indonesia: text and scripts, history and identity (Kuala Lumpur, 1997), p. 146. For K’tut Tantri’s own highly coloured version, Revolt in paradise (New York, 1960), pp. 176–98.
94. Idrus, ‘Surabaja’, p. 23.
95. Quoted in Frederick, Visions and heat, p. 255.
96. Doulton, The Fighting Cock, p. 253. For recent accounts see John Springhall, ‘“Disaster in Surabaya”: the death of Brigadier Mallaby during the British occupation of Java, 1945–46’, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 24, 3 (1996), pp. 422–43; McMillan, British occupation of Indonesia, pp. 31–46.
97. Foreign Office to Dominion governments, 6 November 1945, CAB121/698, TNA.
98. SACSEA to Cabinet, 2 November 1945; ARNEI to SACSEAC, 3 November 1945, CAB121/698, TNA.
99. ‘Indonesian version of Brig. Mallaby’s death’, WO203/2455, TNA.
100. For the Mallaby controversy see J. G. A. Parrott, ‘Who killed Brigadier Mallaby?’, Indonesia, 20 (1975), pp. 87–111; Springhall, ‘“Disaster in Surabaya”’. Richard McMillan continues the debate in British occupation of Indonesia, pp. 46–52. McMillan’s account is more sympathetic to Mallaby than previous studies.
101. SEAC to Cabinet, CAB121/698, TNA.
102. This was certainly the view of Mallaby’s deputy, Major Lewis Pugh; see David Jordan, ‘“A particularly exacting operation”: British forces and the battle of Surabaya, November 1945’, Small Wars and