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...Java, the five-month-old Indonesian Republic of President Soekarno and Premier Sutan Sjahrir wanted full political independence, not dominion status in a Netherlands Commonwealth. According to the A.P.'s Vern Haugland, back from a tour of Java's hinterland, the Republic was well-entrenched and popular...
Heart's Content. The Newfoundlanders have lived simply, in such villages as Heart's Content and Heart's Delight, Seldom Come By and Come By Chance. They dotted their 6,000 miles of deeply indented coastline and the spruce and fir-studded hinterland with modest frame houses, often surrounded by little flower and vegetable gardens. Most made their living by codfishing; others went down into the submarine depths of Bell Island to mine iron ore. Still others cut pulpwood for the paper mills at modern Grand Falls and Corner Brook...
...latest returns told the story. Gomes' popularity in the capital, which had convinced the press, foreign embassies and correspondents that he would be the winner, was borne out-in Rio. But in industrial Sāo Paulo, in Vargas' southern gaúcho country, in the hinterland generally, the functionaries of the old regime had turned out enough votes for Dutra to override Gomes...
...affair; while China would not recognize the native "provisional government," neither would it interfere with it. The spokesman also hinted that China wanted a voice in the operation of the French-owned railway that runs from the Indo-Chinese port of Haiphong to Kunming in China's southern hinterland...
...tough fight ahead. Already Perón's sound trucks raced through the streets, extolling the Strong Man's achievements in "social justice." No sensible Argentine discounted the Strong Man's appeal nor failed to note the steady expansion of his political machine in the hinterland beyond Buenos Aires. Everywhere his police, mayors and governors could be counted on to work wonders, by intimidation or otherwise...