Word: hatta
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...eloquent Soekarno is the Kerensky of the Indonesian revolution, his vice president, Mohammed Hatta, 43, may be the Lenin. Sharp, shrewd, European-educated Hatta formed his first nationalist group at 15, like Soekarno was exiled by the Dutch...
...apparently do not wholly trust each other, are usually interviewed together so that each can check on what the other says. Hatta drafted the movement's constitution, which is full of escape clauses (the President has dictatorial powers "at critical times;" freedom of speech and assembly are not guaranteed, but "shall be provided...
...first cheeps in 1908 were a safe & sane Boedi Oetomo (High Endeavor) society, founded by some aristocratic Javanese medical students. A bevy of more determined groups followed it. Within a decade such nationalists as the smooth-faced, smooth-talking Soekarno, a Bandung Technical University engineering graduate, and Mohammed Hatta, who went to Amsterdam University, were getting bold ideas. They had heard of things like Communism, self-determination, revolution. In the '20s their exuberance landed both briefly in jail. Soekarno, who uses no other name, was a founder of the lusty P.N.I, (for Partai Nasional Indonesia), which the Dutch...