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The world at large, especially those who had helped bring into being the United Nations at San Francisco, was faced with the question of Indonesian sovereignty vis a vis the Dutch, whom the United Nations recognised as vested with sovereignty over Indonesia.
Whenever they appeared at international conferences the Dutch claimed that they had never looked upon Indonesia as a colony and that, consequently, the Indonesians had nothing but love and affection for the Dutch Government. But for two months now the world has seen how determined the Indonesians are to have nothing to do with Dutch imperialism. In every possible way the Indonesians have manifested their desire to remain a sovereign people. The Dutch want to reimpose their rule on Indonesia, and the foisting of Dutch imperialism on us will be nothing else but a deliberate violation of the Atlantic Charter and of the United -Nations' Charter; and it will result in endless bloodshed and sacrifice of life, for only by force and force alone can the Dutch try to pull down the government which we have set up.
Nor have the Dutch any moral right to walk into Indonesia to resume their old imperialistic policies on the assumption that they bear no blame for their past sins or for their surrender which resulted in 70 million Indonesians being delivered to the tender mercies of Japanese militarism. Justice denies the Dutch any say in our affairs, and any sanctioning of their imperialistic aspir-
