Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tide of nationalism that swept the world after World War II, no young nation swam more proudly than Indonesia. Its 3,000 islands were rich with oil, bauxite, rubber, tin; its 85,000,000 citizens made it the world's biggest Moslem nation, sixth in population among all the nations of the world. In five years of fighting and negotiation, it had shaken off 350 years of Dutch rule and installed a working democracy pledged to merge its dozen ethnic groups and 114 different languages into a new "unity in diversity...
...past vacations, President Eisenhower has always kept in close telephone touch with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. This time he did not talk to Dulles, despite the revolution in Indonesia, the realignment of Arab powers in, the Mideast and the critical problem of U.S.-British mediation between France and Tunisia (see FOREIGN NEWS). On past vacations, Cabinet members have shuttled to and from Washington to see Ike. This time none visited the vacation point...
...Republic of Indonesia got its first major rebellion, and seldom had the world seen such a reluctant one. For months the rebel colonels had debated and threatened. Early last week they issued their oft-promised and oft-postponed ultimatum. It gave Djakarta five days to replace Premier Djuanda and his Cabinet by a new government free of Communist influence and headed by moderate ex-Vice President Mohammed Hatta and the popular, middle-of-the-road Sultan of Djokjakarta...
...Squeeze. Few guns are likely to be fired in anger between the supporters of Indonesia's rival governments. The armies are small ones-measurable in battalions rather than divisions-and there is no easy way for them to get at each other, since neither side has enough warships or transports to mount an invasion. The rebels have no aircraft at all; the central government has only a few, with perhaps several hundred paratroopers. Java has more population (54 million, v. Sumatra's 12 million). But Java must import even its food, is already in serious economic difficulties. Sumatra...
...Said Dulles: ''We would like to see in Indonesia a government which is constitutional . . . There is a kind of 'guided democracy' trend there . . . which may not quite conform with the provisional constitution, and apparently does not entirely satisfy large segments of the population...