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...mild difficulty, Sukarno blames "Western colonialism"; if the country's difficulties begin to cause visible concern at home, he produces hair-raising tales of Dutch, English and U.S. sabotage; and when things really get bad, he trots out the tired, threadbare but ever-serviceable issue of Irian Barat (Dutch New Guinea...
...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...
...have been defeated by the United Nations," cried Indonesia's President Soekarno, "but we do not have to beg from them. If we are to get Irian,* we must have power, power, power and more power." More significant than anything Soekarno had to say to the Nationalists last week was the eloquent fact of his presence. It was the first time in Indonesia's five years as a republic that the President has appeared at any party convention. He has always told Indonesians wherever he went: "Brothers, I am above such things as party politics. I am your...
...Melanesian tribesmen, 2) a New Guinea Council with Indonesian representation, 3) a condominium under The Netherlands-Indonesian Union, 4) continued negotiation through the U.N. Last week, on the conference's closing day, the Indonesians rejected all halfway measures: "We cannot accept the continuation of Dutch administration in West Irian ... a territory which in our opinion is a part of our country." Two days later Minister Rum flew back home...
...Jakarta, where the Republican government of President Soekarno had staked its position and prestige on getting title to West Irian, the political weather quickly turned squally. The country's nationalistic press raised a clamor for ending Indonesia's twelve-month-old union with The Netherlands...