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Early Years. Born June 6, 1901 in Surabaya, East Java, to a Balinese mother, Javanese father, who taught school for a living. Although few natives learned to read under the Dutch, received a rare civil engineer degree at Bandung Technical Institute, entitling him to precede his name by Ir. (Dutch contraction for engineer). But Ir. Sukarno built little, instead bent himself to destroying Dutch rule. The Dutch jailed him in 1929 and kept him jailed or exiled for twelve of the next 13 years. In 1942 the Japanese army smashed over 300 years of Dutch rule in eight days, freeing...
...Bandung conference of Afro-Asian nations last year, Ceylon's Prime Minister Sir John Kotelawala earned the free world's gratitude by angrily and eloquently insisting that any denunciations of colonialism should include a denunciation of the one real imperialism in the world today-Communist Russia's. India's Nehru, who had hoped to introduce his friend, Communist China's Chou Enlai, to his fellow Asians in a benevolent atmosphere, was outraged (TIME, May 2). What gave Sir John's words added weight was that he was himself a neutrlalist, opposed to SEATO though...
...holding a plebiscite (1950), which produced a 95% vote in favor of union. He then sponsored a nationalist youth organization and called for a boycott of everything British. Carrying his propaganda into foreign fields, he visited Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Britain and the U.S., and last year went to the Bandung conference to seek Asian support for Cypriot self-determination. According to the British, he also organized "a systematic campaign of passive resistance" on Cyprus, which became, after arms and explosives were smuggled from Greece, a campaign of active sabotage and terrorism...
...agitation against both South Africa and France comes chiefly from the 14-nation Arab-Asian bloc, which found a community of purpose at Bandung and has been throwing its weight around since. India in particular, said Du Plessis, has "pursued a vendetta" against South Africa almost since the beginning...
...U.S.S.R. menace, Turkey plunged resolutely into beefing up its army, sent a valiant 4,500-man brigade and replacements to Korea, accepted and promoted John Foster Dulles' concept of the "Northern Tier" alliance (see above). Last April Zorlu himself skillfully carried the West's position into the Bandung conference...