ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Anglo-Japanese relations from 1945 to 1946 during the transition from war to peace in South East Asia and relates especially to Indonesia. It is about attitudes of soldiers on both sides of the wartime divide, not primarily about policies. It is about their individual adjustment to the rather special circumstances which prevailed at the war’s end. Any study about individuals is bound to be impressionistic and fraught with difficulty over whether the individuals mentioned are representative or not. In the no-man’s-land between war and peace, is the human spirit capable of adjusting its feelings overnight from enemy to friend?
