Word: hirschfeld
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Change the Pictures. At week's end, the fledgling government seemed to be hitting its stride. In the executive mansion, President Soekarno began receiving the new envoys to Indonesia. The first to present his credentials was Economic Expert Dr. Hans M. Hirschfeld, the Dutch Government's choice as the first Netherlands High Commissioner to the United States of Indonesia. The second was the U.S.'s bulky, soft-spoken H. Merle Cochran. For 18 months, Cochran had been the moving force on the United Nations Commission for Indonesia, had skillfully steered the Dutch and Indonesian negotiators through...