--- title: Neen, Coen, ook wij burgers zullen niet dispereeren! (No, Coen, we citizens too shall not despair!) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/indie-weerbaar-neen-coen-1942/ description: Printed appeal with a portrait of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the founder of Batavia, and a scroll quoting his 'Dispereert niet' ('Do not despair'), answered… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Neen, Coen, ook wij burgers zullen niet dispereeren! (No, Coen, we citizens too shall not despair!)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/indie-weerbaar-neen-coen-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/indie-weerbaar-neen-coen-1942.jpg) # Neen, Coen, ook wij burgers zullen niet dispereeren! (No, Coen, we citizens too shall not despair!) Printed appeal with a portrait of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, the founder of Batavia, and a scroll quoting his 'Dispereert niet' ('Do not despair'), answered by the headline 'No, Coen, we citizens too shall not despair!'. The tells: the founder's portrait and words are borrowed to authorise the appeal (transfer), and coming losses are justified by 'the happiness and welfare of the whole people', a virtue phrase left untested (glittering generalities). ## Text on the object Original (Dutch) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [scroll:] „Dispereert niet, ontsiet Uw vijanden niet, daer en is ter werelt niet, dat ons kan hinderen.“ Neen, Coen, ook wij burgers zullen niet dispereeren! Indië heeft bewezen, dat het kan toeslaan. Marine en Leger hielden hun schitterende traditie hoog. En het burgerfront juichte. Maar er zijn verliezen geleden. En nog veel meer verliezen zullen volgen. Dan zal het burgerfront niet juichen. Dat zal de beproeving zijn — de beproeving van ons weerstandsvermogen. Doch Indië zal de offers, ook de zwaarste, met gelijkmoedigheid weten te brengen. Zij zullen slechts een aansporing zijn om vol te houden, gedachtig de woorden van hem, die Batavia stichtte en den grondslag legde van hetgeen wij thans verdedigen: het geluk en de welvaart van gansch het volk. Wij willen en wij zullen handhaven ! [banner:] Een beroep op U voor een weerbaar, werkzaam en waakzaam Indië [emblem:] WEERBAAR WERKZAAM WAAKZAAM [caption beneath: illegible] [lower right:] 183 4-100 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` [scroll:] "Do not despair, do not fear your enemies, there is nothing in the world that can hinder us." No, Coen, we citizens too shall not despair! The Indies have proved that they can strike. Navy and Army upheld their splendid tradition. And the civilian front cheered. But losses have been suffered. And many more losses will follow. Then the civilian front will not cheer. That will be the trial, the trial of our power of resistance. But the Indies will know how to bear the sacrifices, even the heaviest, with equanimity. They will only be an encouragement to hold out, mindful of the words of him who founded Batavia and laid the foundation of what we now defend: the happiness and welfare of the whole people. We will and we shall uphold! [banner:] An appeal to you for a defensible, hard-working and watchful Indies [emblem:] DEFENSIBLE HARD-WORKING WATCHFUL [caption beneath: illegible] [lower right:] 183 4-100 ``` Read from the committed image; typography as printed (the scroll's quotation marks are the German-style low-high pair). '183 4-100' at lower right is a print or archive mark, kept as printed. The emblem's small caption is illegible. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 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