Minister Loudon wrote to the Governor-General in 1861: “I regard every extension of our authority in the Indies archipelago as a step nearer to our fall, and the more so because we have already grown far beyond our strength” — the classic statement of the policy of non-intervention.
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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.