Word: djakarta
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will now move on to Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow President Sukarno. Behind-the-scenes word in Djakarta: Allison got out of step on policy with Secretary of State Dulles, urged the U.S. to listen with more sympathy to Indonesian claims to Dutch-held West New Guinea, predicted there might be a blowoff if it did not. Dulles, impressed with the need for friendship with the Dutch...
...Ultimatum. The meeting was called, Simbolon told TIME Correspondent James Bell last week, because the Djakarta government had ignored an earlier demand from the colonels made last September, asking for an anti-Communist government of democracy, constitutionality, law and order. After two weeks of discussion, the conferees decided on their tactics. They would form a counter-government headed by Sjafruddin. and send an ultimatum to Acting President Sartono, demanding that he dismiss the "unconstitutional" government of Premier Djuanda and ask former Vice President Mohammed Hatta to form a national government of antiCommunists...
...never been invested by Parliament. Said one Padang official: "We fought for a country based on Pantja Sila [the Five Principles of belief in God, nationalism, humanitarianism, social justice and democracy]. Did we do this just to turn the country over to Communists as they are doing in Djakarta...
Simbolon is sure that if Djakarta defies their ultimatum, central government warplanes may soon be sent to bomb and strafe their headquarters. "We've penetrated the Djakarta government," says Simbolon calmly, "and we know that the Cabinet has decided to take military action against us at the end of February. By that time the government will have received four frigates from Italy and some arms from the Communist countries...
...Djakarta's moldering port of Tandjong Priok, sweltering Dutch housewives and pathetic clusters of elderly women waited solemnly while customs and immigration officials examined their documents and belongings. The Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...