Word: hatta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Late Word. Ever since Sukarno touched off his expel-the-Dutch campaign, Indonesian moderates had been waiting hopefully for some word from quiet, capable Dr. Mohammed Hatta. First elected Vice President in 1945, Hatta is Indonesia's best-known politician after Sukarno, is regarded by many Indonesians as a much more stable and responsible statesman. He resigned 13 months ago in disgust at the President's insistence on including Communists in his Cabinet, has since rejected all overtures to come back into the government...
...recuperation in a friendly country, presumably India or Egypt. In Sukarno's absence, Parliament Speaker Sartono would serve as Acting President, working in cooperation with Premier Djuanda and Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, chief of staff of the Indonesian army. There was talk that former Vice President Mohammed Hatta, who resigned last year in protest against Sukarno's attempt to set up a "guided democracy'' in partnership with the Communists, might return to office...
There was no substantiation of rumors heard in Amsterdam that Sukarno had been ousted by a triumvirate including Premier Djuanda and the chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Abdul Harris Nasution, and headed by Mohammed Hatta, former vice president and Sukarno's chief partner in the Indonesian revolution...
...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...
...week wore on, many Indonesians including Mohammed Hatta, began to be assailed by the uncomfortable suspicion that what was going on was just another of Sukarno's morality plays. Among the things that had driven Hatta into opposition and the colonels into revolt were Sukarno's campaigns to convert Indonesia into a "guided democracy" and to bring the Communists into its government. By joining Sukarno in a public pledge of amity, Hatta had, in effect, agreed to moderate his outspoken criticism of the President. But, Hatta discovered last week, cagey Politician Sukarno himself was making no move...