Java

The National Broadcasting Company at its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. This is the story of the Pacific. The drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest sea, where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace.

This, as another public service of the National Broadcasting Company, is the background story of the events in the Pacific and their meaning to us and to the generations to come. Thunder in Java. We have had 350 years of the promises of the Dutch.

We want no more. We offer the Indies self-government within the Commonwealth of the Indies. If Indonesia does not achieve independence, there will be war and revolution for many years. The thunder has been rolling up in an Netherlands Indies for half a century.

The Indonesians, the people of the Indies, and the Dutch, both made their positions clear. The Indonesians want independence. The Dutch regard the Indies as their preserve and wish to be left completely alone with them to develop them their own way.

But now for more than a month, the Dutch have had to accept the help of the British to quell the uprisings and to disarm the Japanese. I'll tell you why the British are there. Observers on the spot have their own opinions.

The British aren't in Java only to disarm the Japanese and put down the Indonesian outbreak. They're there to help re-establish Dutch rule, and indirectly to help themselves. They know that if the Dutch were thrown out of the Indians, that Britain would be through in Malaya and Burma, and that the French would be through in Indocharna.

Across the scene of conflict in Java passes a profession of characters. Some are Indonesians, some are Dutch, and some are British. There's your birthist, Jay-Man Moak, who perhaps knows as much about the Netherlands Indies there's any Dutchman living, there's Van de Plass through whom the Dutch plan to rule the Indies. There's Dr. T. Anne Subcano, who was president of the Indonesian Republic, and