Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calm Intention. Many Republican leaders seemed calmly confident of their ability to maintain order and check Communism in Indonesia. At week's end, President Soekarno repeated that he had no intention of yielding to Communist pressure, but warned that the Communists in Indonesia would grow stronger every day that the Dutch put off granting real national independence...
Back in Batavia, however, another influential Indonesian leader, Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak in Borneo, was not so sure of his countrymen's ability to check the Communist tide in Asia. "Communism," he said, "is the greatest danger for us here." The Sultan urged U.S. aid to help the U.S.I, to its feet; he indicated that for such aid America might well be permitted to have troops and bases in Indonesia...
...prove that their anti-Communist actions are as good as their intentions, Indonesian Republicans wound up a busy week (see above) by announcing the execution of Moscow-trained Tan Malaka, the slender, smooth-skinned Indonesian Communist leader who had ungraciously refused to comply with at least four previous Republican reports of his death...
This time, the Republicans dressed up their account of Tan's execution with details. Tan, they said, was executed by a firing squad April 9, near Blitar, in East Java. The Republicans also reported that they had executed three other Communist chieftains: former Premier Amir Sjarifoed-den, R. M. Suripino, a former Republican diplomat, and a Communist Party secretary named Hadjono...
...faculty resistance mounted, the University of California Regents watered down the new loyalty oath that they had proposed. Staff members would no longer have to declare that they were not dabbling in subversive doctrine, though they would be asked to swear that they are not members of the Communist Party...