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...Choice in New Guinea...
...Washington diplomat" may be right about Indonesia's going Communist in the Dutch-Indonesian conflict. Ever since Sukarno has been president in Indonesia (1945), nationalism has been equivalent to opportunism. After Dutch West New Guinea, Indonesia's next targets will be British West Borneo, Portuguese Timor and Australian East New Guinea...
...leaving any minute for a vacation tour which would range from Tokyo to Cairo. But government officials were working to stop the forcible seizure of Dutch properties by workers inflamed with nationalist fervor at The Netherlands' refusal to discuss the question of West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). In East Java, Indonesian army officers confronted a mob that had surrounded the home of a Dutch estate manager. "Are you brave, very brave?" asked one officer. "Yes, yes!" yelled the workers, apparently in the belief that the army would help them sack the Dutch estate. "All right, then," said the officer...
...order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...
...used as a bar. He was 90 when he died; the coffin was finally emptied of potables and, filled at last with Hirst, was "borne to the grave by eight stout widows." Mr. Hirst's wish had been for eight old-maid pallbearers, but the promise of a guinea apiece "was not large enough to overcome the shyness habitual to the maiden state; so, in the end, Mr. Hirst had to fall back upon widows, who, being more accessible, were regarded by him as not being worth more than half a crown each...