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2. Marc Frey, “Dutch Elites and Decolonization,” in Elites and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century, ed. Jost Diilffer and Marc Frey (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 58
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4. Dirk U. Stikker, Men of Responsibility: A Memoir (New York: Harper & Row, 1966), 146
5. Lucian Ashworth, “The 1945–1949 Dutch-Indonesian Conflict: Lessons and Perspectives in the Study of Insurgency,” Conflict Quarterly Winter (1990): 41.