Word: soekarno
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Just before noon of the day after Queen Juliana's announcement, two C-475 bearing Indonesian President Soekarno and his official party swept over the city from the mountains of central Java. Soekarno, whom most Indonesians regard as the personification of independence, had been driven from Jakarta by the Dutch almost exactly four years ago. A roar of welcome ascended as the planes reached the runway. President Soekarno, wearing a white uniform and black Moslem hat, climbed into an open Packard convertible and headed into the city. Behind him, over a distance of four miles, tumultuously happy crowds boiled...
...Almost as soon as Soekarno arrived at the palace, a torrent of Indonesians surged through the gates onto the lawn. Others enthusiastically kicked the slats from, a wooden picket fence and poured in unchecked. In a matter of minutes, the sprawling, mile-wide Koningsplein in front of the palace was an unbroken expanse of brown faces...
...fight against the Dutch ended, Soekarno turned relatively conservative, broke with the Communists who at first had supported him. To the press, he issued photographs of himself and his handsome family, like any Western politician; recently, he urged his extremist followers to accept the agreement signed last month at The Hague, which set up the U.S.I, and assigned it a place as equal partner with the former mother country in the new Netherlands-Indonesian Union (TIME, Nov. 14). After a lot of fiery oratory which denounced The Hague deal for making too many concessions to the Dutch, the Republican Parliament...
...Roses. Last week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
...Soekarno and his inexperienced government should prove unable to fill the vacuum which the end of the white man's rule had left behind in Indonesia, the Communists stood ready to rush in. In U.N.'s Security Council, they provided a clue to their attitude toward Indonesia. The Council wanted to dispatch felicitations to the Indonesians, the Dutch, and the U.N. Commission for Indonesia, whose conciliatory work had been at least in part responsible for the birth of the new nation. But the Russians cast their 42nd and 43rd veto in the Council to block the congratulatory messages...