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103. D. Wehl, The birth of Indonesia (London, 1949), pp. 65–7.
104. AFNEI to ALFSEA, [?]16 November 1945, WO203/2650, TNA.
105. Idrus, ‘Surabaja’, p. 13.
106. Christison to Sir Archibald Nye, 23 November 1945, CAB121/698, TNA.
107. Mrázek, Sjahrir, p. 308.
108. Anderson, Java in a time of revolution, pp. 2–10; Reid, The Indonesian national revolution, pp. 54–7. For a thoughtful discussion see William H. Frederick, ‘Shadows of an unseen hand: some patterns of violence in the Indonesian revolution, 1945–1949’, in F. Columbijn and T. Lindblad (eds.), Roots of violence in Indonesia: contemporary violence in historical perspective (Singapore, 2002), pp. 143–72.
109. Robert Cribb, Gangsters and revolutionaries: the Jakarta People’s Militia and the Indonesian revolution, 1945–1949 (Honolulu, 1991).
110. Abu Hanifah, Tales of a revolution, p. 175.
111. Ibid.
112. SACSEA to Chiefs of Staff, 22 December 1945, CAB121/699, TNA; Wehl, Birth of Indonesia, pp. 77–80.
113. Raymond (‘Turk’) Westerling, Challenge to terror (London, 1952), pp. 41–57.
114. Mrázek, Sjahrir, pp. 274–83.
115. Martha Gellhorn, ‘Java journey’, in The face of war (Harmondsworth, 1991). Mrásek, Sjahrir, pp. 209–18.
116. Frances Gouda with Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, American visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia: United States foreign policy and Indonesian nationalism, 1920–1949 (Amsterdam, 2002), p. 126.
117. Woodman’s file has been released to the National Archive, KV2/1609, TNA.
118. John Coast, Recruit to revolution: adventure and politics in Indonesia (London, 1952), pp. 1–25.
119. Dening to SACSEA, 9 November 1945, CAB121/698, TNA.
120. Aldrich, Intelligence and the war against Japan, pp. 356–7.
121. Danilyn Fox Rutherford, ‘Trekking to New Guinea: Dutch colonial fantasies of a virgin land, 1900–1942’, in Julia Clancy-Smith and Frances Gouda (eds.), Domesticating the empire: race, gender and family life in French and Dutch colonialism (London, 1998), pp. 255–71.
122. Testimony of Hendrik B. Babtist in Krancher, The defining years of the Dutch East Indies, pp. 151–3.
123. S. Woodburn Kirby, The war against Japan, vol. V, The surrender of Japan (London, 1969), pp. 334–6. Christison to Sir Archibald Nye, 23 November 1945, CAB121/698; SACSEA to Cabinet, 3 December 1945, CAB121/699, TNA.
124. The Times, 29 December 1945.
125. Doulton, The Fighting Cock, pp. 290–1.
126. Bogarde, Backcloth, p. 175; Coldstream, Dirk Bogarde, pp. 176–9. The milieu is captured in Bogarde’s first novel, A gentle occupation (London, 1980).
127. Van der Post, The admiral’s baby, p. 279.
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1. ‘Vernacular Press Digest, No. 4’, 24 November 1945, SNA.
2. ‘Peace or Destruction’, New Demcracy, 22 November 1945.
3. Utusan Melayu, 30 November 1945.
4. We have used the account of the Australian Communist Party leader John Lockwood, Black Armada: Australia & the struggle for Indonesian independence 1942–49 (Sydney, 1975).
5. Margaret George, Australia and the Indonesian revolution (Melbourne, 1980), p. 36.
6. Batavia to Foreign Office, 6 November 1945, CAB121/698, TNA.
7. Christopher E. Goscha, Thailand and the Southeast Asian networks of the Vietnamese revolution, 1885–1954 (London, 1999), ch. 5.
8. C. C. Chin and Karl Hack (eds.), Dialogues with Chin Peng: new light on the Malayan Communist Party (Singapore, 2004), pp. 126–7.
9. Suryono Darusman, Singapore and the Indonesian revolution, 1945–50 (Singapore, 1992), ch. 3; Twang Peck Yang, The Chinese business elite in Indonesia and the transition to independence, 1940–1950 (Kuala Lumpur, 1998).
10. Yong Mun Cheong, The Indonesian revolution and the Singapore connection, 1945–1949 (Singapore, 2003), p. 118.
11. New Democracy, 14 January 1946.
12. ‘Report on RAPWI in Malaya and Singapore’, 7 January 1946, BMA/ADM/2/34, ANM.
13. Wim Willems, ‘No sheltering sky: migrant identities of Dutch nationals from Indonesia’, in Andrea L. Smith (ed.), Europe’s invisible migrants (Amsterdam, 2003) pp. 33–60.
14. Quoted in Frances Gouda with