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That was Sukarno's first venture in winksmanship, four weeks ago. His second came when U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Djakarta and told that army intelligence reported that a Nationalist Chinese battalion had landed in North Celebes to help the beleaguered rebels. Ambassador Jones knew that the report was absurd, but he also got the diplomatic point. Sukarno was demanding that the U.S. stop being "neutral" about the Indonesian civil war and take a stand...
...Washington did a nearly complete about-face. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a press conference that the rebellion was, of course, an "Indonesian matter" to be dealt with by Indonesians alone; the State Department promptly issued licenses for the immediate sale of small arms and munitions to Djakarta; the U.S. eagerly agreed to send Indonesia $5,500,000 worth of badly needed rice. All of these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, veteran Career Diplomat John Allison, whose reward had been replacement by Ambassador Jones. Washington then...
...government's victory became assured, Indonesian officials spoke enthusiastically about the "new understanding" between Djakarta and Washington. President Sukarno and his beautiful fourth wife, Hartini, made an unprecedented visit to Ambassador Jones's Dutch colonial residence for lunch. Sukarno jovially shook hands with the four U.S. marines of the embassy guard; he toasted President Eisenhower and the American people in orange squash. Purred another guest, Foreign Minister Subandrio: "We insiders, who know the process of thinking of Dulles and the setup of the State Department, realize that Indonesian-U.S. relations are improving...
...Amboina the Italian freighter Aquila was bombed and sunk, the Greek ship Armonia strafed, the Panamanian Flying Lark left with nine dead. On the open seas an Indonesian merchant ship, recently purchased from the Soviet Union, was riddled, and its Russian captain broadcast a frantic S O S to Djakarta, reporting five dead...
...rebels had hoped for the U.S. aid that Red China talked of, but had not got it. They had expected that Washington would cripple Djakarta by freezing all Indonesian funds in the U.S. until the fighting was over; they hoped for cooperation from the U.S.-owned oilfields in cutting off revenues to the central government; they thought that raising the standard of anti-Communist revolt would bring quick support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake...