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...countries they cover, discussed future events likely to become news stories, and made plans to have a man on the spot when something happens. For his own background-and planning-Gottfried interviewed many military and political leaders, among them the British Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, the Sultan of Jogjakarta, and General MacArthur...
Last week the youthful Sultan of Jogjakarta, vice premier of Indonesia's present central government, paid a flying visit to Bali, conferred with local army authorities and civil officials. Said the Sultan: "I promise immediate action...
Four months ago, the merger of the Republic and the federated states into the independent United States of Indonesia finally put the two sultans in the same camp. Both of them went after the post of Defense Minister of the new nation. The Sultan of Jogjakarta, whose Republican friends dominated the central government, got the job. The Sultan of West Borneo was appointed cabinet minister without portfolio...
Next morning police yanked the Sultan of West Borneo out of his suite in the capital's swank Hotel des Indes and hurried him off to confinement in the palace of his rival, the Sultan of Jogjakarta. West Borneo's Sultan, asserted Indonesian intelligence officers, had secretly masterminded Turk Westerling's rebellion...
Last week it was announced that the Sultan, confronted by captured Westerling aides, had confessed. He admitted, said a government statement, that he had ordered Westerling to attack a cabinet meeting, seize all the ministers present and shoot the Sultan of Jogjakarta. Then he had planned to set up a new cabinet, naming himself as defense minister. The plan misfired because on the day set for the attack the cabinet had ended its session earlier than the rebels expected. Now the Sultan of West Borneo was slated for a quick trial before a special court. As he sat in prison...