Dutch East Indies

How To Use Dutch East Indies In A Sentence

• In the first message, Roosevelt learned that Japan was applying diplomatic pressure to obtain oil export rights in Portuguese Timor, a small island east of the Dutch East Indies. DAY OF DECEIT
• Indonesia used to be a Dutch colony, known as the Dutch East Indies. Huckabee's 'Kenya' clarification raises more questions
• The eraser, which is not rubber but something called "factice," is "made by reacting rape-seed oil from the Dutch East Indies with sulfur chloride. National Review Online
• Indonesia declared its independence in 1945, but for four more years, the Dutch fought to hang on to their former colony, known as the Dutch East Indies. NPR Topics: News
• It is well documented that the Dutch colonists were particularly neglectful of the indigenous population of the Dutch East Indies for centuries.
• Heartbreak, birth and death, steamy sex scenes, family secrets, Japanese atrocities in the Dutch East Indies, religious zealotry, friendships broken did I mention steamy sex scenes? Michael Jones: Bride Flight Review
• It is a rubber-like product made by reacting rape-seed oil from the Dutch East indies with sulfur chloride.
• Decades before his late-in-life conversion to indie rock, Dad's war had taken him to what was then the Dutch East Indies – and also to India, Kent and Hampshire, where he served as an anti-aircraft gunner. My dad, the revolutionary disciple of indie rock
• Following their stunning success at Pearl Harbor, the Japanese overran all of Burma, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies and captured the American bases at Guam and Wake. When We Were the Underdog
• It tells the story of a Dutch clerk who is working for the Dutch East Indies Company at the end of the eighteenth century, and who is based on the secure island of Dejima, in the bay of Nagasaki.