The British Press and the Indonesia Crisis
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
David Jardine
IN August 1945 a war-weary British public receives the news of the Japanese capitulation with great joy. A month or so later British troops are sent to Indonesia, where they become embroiled in a bitter conflict with Asia’s newest nation.
The British military under the leadership of Lord Louis Mountbatten soon realize that they are involved in a situation for which they have had no preparation and pre
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