Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Communism is not the issue in Asia, claimed Miss Jean Mintz, one time adviser to the Indonesian embassy, during an informal seminar on Southeast Asia last Saturday. The people there are too concerned over becoming independent national states to worry about this country's battle with Communism...
...nearly two years Turk Westerling had been a fugitive from his own countrymen, and from the Indonesian Republic-wanted by both for homicide and other crimes committed in Indonesia after the islands won their independence from The Netherlands. A burly, moonfaced lone wolf who was born in Istanbul 32 years ago of a Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold...
...that it fell on its head. Premier Sukiman's ten-month-old coalition cabinet resigned. Reason: in accepting $8,000,000 Mutual Security Aid from the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 25), the government had to formally declare itself on the West's side, a declaration which horrified the Indonesian Parliament...
...those Yankee dollars, foreign governments had to acknowledge their adherence to "the free world." Subarjo disliked these conditions, but signed. A couple of days later two U.S. Army colonels went down to see Defense Minister Sewaka about another matter: a shipment of arms privately purchased in U.S. by the Indonesian government. The news spread through the gossipy capital of Jakarta that the government had sold out to the Western bloc. "American imperialism!" shouted the politicos. A newspaper published a cartoon showing Subarjo on his knees, offering Indonesian independence to MSA, represented by Ambassador Cochran dressed as a bride with...
...Indonesian government is a coalition of two parties, the Nationalists and the Moslems, each of which has four ministers in the cabinet. Last week, in the Indonesian parliament, leaders of both government parties demanded that the cabinet quit. The Communists looked on with rich enjoyment. After an attempt last August to seize the government by violence, some 10,000 of their party had been arrested. Now all but 189 are free, and most are back in key positions in the government. Once again they stand to profit by Indonesia's soft neutralism...