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Show INDONESIA: U.N. Looks It was a matter of regret, the Dutch government said, that the matter of the Dutch - Indonesian fracas was being brought before the United Nations security council. To a few million other observers, it was not so much a matter of regret as it was a surprise. U. N., it seemed, was even then overdue in its action. Australia and India laid the problem prob-lem before the council, where it immediately began to vie with the Balkan issue for priority of debate. Although the Australian and Indian In-dian delegations told the council that the strife between Dutch and Indonesian forces threatened world peace, a Dutch spokesman in Washington Wash-ington said U. N. had no jurisdiction. juris-diction. Netherlands authorities insist on terming the struggle a Dutch "police "po-lice action," designed to control rebellious re-bellious Indonesians who hate to wait until 1919 to attain their independence inde-pendence as a sovereign state. The Indonesians, however, say that the Dutch are waging a colonial war and that it looks like imperialism to them. |