Word: hatta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insurgent headquarters at Padang in Sumatra to propose a compromise. Djuanda's offer: if the dissidents agree to stay their hand until the President returns, he will ask Sukarno to purge the National Council of its Communists and fellow travelers and to invite former Vice President Mohammed Hatta back into the government, probably to take over as Premier from Djuanda himself...
...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...
...told Sukarno that he has only two choices: "Ask for aid from Russia and other Communist countries in the fashion of Hungary's Janos Kadar ... or, if Your Excellency still loves the Indonesian Republic, return to your constitutional position and form a new Cabinet of men like Mohammed Hatta and the Sultan of Djogjakarta, who enjoy the full confidence of the majority of the Indonesian people. It is up to Your Excellency which way you wish to take...
Last week, in an open letter that made headlines in every newspaper in Indonesia, Hatta made it perfectly clear that he, too, felt the Dutch must go. But he had nothing but scorn for Sukarno's tactics. Sukarno's policy of dramatics-and-damn-the-consequences was arbitrary, unrealistic and unnecessary. "If people are now forced to starve temporarily, it is the result of crazy steps organized by hot bloods who have done no clear-cut planning. It is not the Indonesian people who should suffer because of the stubbornness of the Dutch government, but the Dutch people...
...Hatta pointedly underscored what every informed Indonesian knew already: that the country has almost no navy or air force and could not possibly take Netherlands New Guinea forcibly no matter how belligerently Sukarno & Co. may sound off in Djakarta. "Our youth." said Hatta, "should not be asked to swim across the ocean to get West Irian. It is not through war that we will get back West Irian but by peaceful ways and means...