J. Schaap is a subject named in General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh (1943) by M. H. du Croo, in connection with the history of Atjeh and the governorship of H. N. A. Swart.
Account in du Croo’s Generaal Swart (1943)
From H. N. A. Swart
As a private citizen Swart returned to the Netherlands, settling at Den Haag, but Atjeh retained his warm and continuous interest. When resistance broke out again on the west coast of Atjeh in 1925, his opinion was sought in Holland and reported by the journalist J. Schaap, formerly editor-in-chief of the Java-Bode, in The Weekly of an Amsterdammer of 14 and 21 September 1927 — a statement du Croo called “Swart’s Atjehsch testament”.
From Westkust van Atjeh
It was again on the west coast that resistance broke out in 1925, seven years after Swart’s retirement — the occasion on which Swart’s opinion was sought in Holland and recorded by J. Schaap as “Swart’s Atjehsch testament.” Du Croo attributed the outbreak to the failure of the condition Swart had omitted to state: “provided that the leading civil officials and military men do not spoil my work.”
From Atjehtram
In 1927 Swart, then long retired, told the journalist J. Schaap that there was some danger that communism might be introduced into Atjeh along the Atjehtram, “for on this tramway line five hundred kilometres long almost only Acehnese work as track coolies, and it is not impossible that people among the staff may know how to work upon them; but if the higher staff act rightly, this danger can be reduced. If only one knows how to keep the people’s confidence.”
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Source
Generaal Swart, Pacificator van Atjeh (“General Swart, Pacifier of Atjeh”), by M. H. du Croo, Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with the collaboration of H. J. Schmidt, Titular Colonel K.N.I.L. (retired), with a foreword by His Excellency Lieutenant-General K.N.I.L. (retired) G. K. Dijkstra (Maastricht: N.V. Leiter-Nypels, 1943), passim.