Author: MERDEKA - DE OPDRACHT,
Title: De Opdracht. Tijdschrift gewijd aan het nieuwe Indië, nr. 17-October 1945. Orig. issue.
Description: S.L. ['s=Gravenhage], s.n.,, 1945. small folio, stapled. 16pp. printed in double collumns. With 2 portraits: of B.J.O. Schrieke and H.E. J.H.A. Logeman, the then minister of colonial affairs, two other illustrations, table of contents, some advertism. WINKEL, 596. Contains 15 articles by various contributors on the political situation in dutch colonial indonesia, and two orbituaries for B.J.O. Schrieke (with a portrait) and forPa Van der Steur (with a group-portrait of some of his orphan-boys). An odd issue of this dutch language monthly, for the greater part dealing with the dutch-indonesian dispute, 1945-1950. Together 46 issues published, August 1944-February 1947, of which Nrs. 1-8 have been illegally published under the german nazi-occupation of the Netherlands. Very well preserved. (centre-folded, not disturbung however).

Keywords: merdeka politics monthly newspaper odd issue dispute colonialism indonesia southeast asia