A Continent Erupts Quotes

“what proved to be an accurate assessment of the coming Dutch-Indonesian conflict, Kennedy concluded that “a fully equipped Dutch division could probably penetrate Java and proceed to wherever it wished to go” but that “immediately after the army had passed a given point the revolution would close in behind it.”16”
― Ronald H. Spector, A Continent Erupts: Decolonization, Civil War, and Massacre in Postwar Asia, 1945-1955