Published: The Militant, Vol. 12 No. 52, 27 December 1948, p. 1.
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Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.
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“The whole world knows that American money and materials are being used today by the Netherlands government in its war of enslavement against the Indonesian people. In July 1947, in the name of the Socialist Workers Party, I requested you take back the American Lend-Lease equipment the Dutch colonial despots were using at that time against the Indonesians. Instead your Administration continued to aid the Dutch imperialists, thus making possible the crimes they are now committing. I again call upon you to immediately withdraw all political and material support from the Dutch. This means not mere suspension of Marshall Plan Aid to the Dutch East Indies, but complete suspension of all aid to the Dutch imperialists. I ask you instead to extend full aid to the Indonesian people in their wholly justified struggle for freedom and independence.”
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