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...issue was West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). For years Sukarno has been claiming as part of Indonesia the wild, raw-material-rich western portion of the world's second largest island (after Greenland). For years the Dutch have refused to hand it over. Sukarno appealed to the U.N. "If the United Nations fail us," he warned last month, "we will resort to methods which will startle the world." The U.N. refused to consider Indonesia's demand, and last week Sukarno made good his threat...
...first 71 refugees were the advance guard of what may swell into a flood of thousands of Dutch nationals Indonesia is threatening to expel because the Netherlands refuse to yield West New Guinea. Holland granted independence to other islands in the area...
Last week things were as bad in Indonesia as they have been at any time in the nation's eight years of independence. True to form, Sukarno sent his goon squads out into the street to whip up indignation over the Dutch refusal to hand over Dutch New Guinea. (Says Sukarno: "I don't get it. The Dutch have given us the main building, but they still cling to the garage.") Organized bands of hooligans smeared blood-and-thunder signs on cars and the walls of Dutch-owned shops and Australian homes from one end of Djakarta...
...Startle the World." With the West Irian question soon up for debate at the U.N., the Dutch fortified their case by issuing a joint statement with Australia pledging their governments to cooperate in the administration of their territories on the huge island of New Guinea, "to promote an uninterrupted development" toward self-determination. Warned Sukarno darkly: "If the United Nations fails us we will resort to methods which will startle the world...
High Adventure: Lowell ("Hello Everybody") Thomas, 65, has finally found a spot on the globe where nobody ever heard of Lowell Thomas: the "uncontrolled territory" of New Guinea. In fact, the local headhunters had never even heard of TV, and when Lowell ran off the "rushes" for some native chiefs, they were "utterly bored." This week Thomas put U.S. viewers to the test with the first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters...