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...glow of seeing the nation's two great revolutionary heroes working together again, the rebellious young army colonels who had bloodlessly seized control of much of Sumatra, Borneo and East Indonesia pledged themselves to obey "unconditionally" the orders of a seven-man special commission headed by Sukarno and Hatta...
...tribute to Djuanda's personal political stature, as well as to his powers of persuasion, that the conference convened at all. Among those assembled were the rebellious army colonels who in recent months have staged a series of bloodless revolts in Sumatra, Borneo and East Indonesia against the central government and President Sukarno's plans for introducing "guided democracy" into Indonesia. The young colonels, headed by fair-skinned, 35-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, put their faith in the one Indonesian whose prestige is at all equal to Sukarno's: Mohammed Hatta. Hatta...
...flag in Kuala Lumpur, Britain welcomed the tenth member of a Commonwealth which now includes five nations dominated by people of European stock, four by Asians (Malaya, India, Pakistan, Ceylon) and one by Africans (Ghana). Of all the once vast British possessions east of Suez, only Hong Kong, North Borneo, Aden and a few scattered islands still remain...
Prudent Declaration. As for Sukarno, a kind and friendly man with pretensions to political learning, he was off on a baby-kissing tour of South Borneo, cracking jokes that had audiences slapping their hips with glee, and making pleas for national unity-the kind of unity, he said, he had found in Red China. After hearing the results of the Communist victory in Java, he thought it prudent to declare: "I am no Communist. I cannot become a Communist...
...faster than the nation can find a way to spend it, is buying a better life for every one of the 60,000 men, women and children in the Sultanate. "You rub your eyes and begin to count the miracles that are taking place in this Green Desert of Borneo," cabled TIME'S Hong Kong Correspondent Paul Hurmuses after a visit to Brunei last week, "and you find there is no end to them...