Dutch buy ex-Australian vehicles

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Hanno.

Out of curiosity, what sort of sense do you have of the general feeling of the average Dutch citizen after the war, with regards to Indonesia? Would they have been quite happen with an independent Indonesia?

It seems so odd that Britain, France and Holland, from a political perspective after the war, were all so hell bent on reestablishing their concept of colonialism in Southeast Asia. It was such a costly mistake for all of them.


David

Britain ,France and the rest had to contend with the USA post war policies.
Generally the US was not supportive of the policy of the European powers holding onto their pre-war colonial territories. Roosevelt and Truman were very much anti colonial by nature but things changed when Ike took over and the US supplied arms to the French in Indo China - Vietnam . The US didn't support UK or France in the Suez crisis