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...promised to stop the drift to the West, and prepared the way for the country's first general election. In the prevailing climate of anti-Western opinion, the Communists drew the left wing of Wilopo's party into a "National Front" coalition. Directed by Moscow-trained Communist Alimin Prawirodirdjo, financed by Peking, the National Front began attacking the government, brought the country to the brink of civil war last October on the issue of military leadership. Only by yielding leadership of the army to the mutineers, and by agreeing to exchange embassies with Moscow and Peking, was Wilopo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Children of the East | 6/15/1953 | See Source »

...Indonesian Republican Government. But Tan Malaka had an ideological falling out with official Communism and became a Trotskyite. Tan Malaka also had a falling out with his great friend President Soekarno, who objected to a plot to kidnap Premier Sjahrir last year. Soekarno jailed Tan Malaka, and Comrade Alimin became Indonesia's No. 1 Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Open Question | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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