Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past ten months, while traveling through nearly every corner of non-Communist Asia and some parts of the Middle East, I was truly delighted to find TIME almost everywhere I went, even in such places as Surabaya or Djakarta, Indonesia, and Pnompenh, Cambodia. Not infrequently, TIME was the only link I felt with the world outside the village or area in which I found myself. In addition, I was happily surprised to note the number of nationals in every Asian country who speak English and read TIME. In South Korea, where I served with U.S. Army intelligence...
...Soble-Morros combine. In Hitchcock-trimmed meetings both in the U.S. and a dozen European cities-including Moscow-the Zlatovskis turned over a file-load of valuable information that eventually dropped into Russian hands, said the indictment. Using OSS information, Jane (code name: "Slang") wrote an incisive report on Indonesia as well as dossiers on U.S. intelligence agents...
...people make allegations that I am going Communist?" When he put this rhetorical question to a Javanese audience a few weeks ago, Indonesia's President Sukarno knew the answer as well as his critics. Ever since he unveiled his konsepsi to turn the Republic of Indonesia into a "guided democracy" (TIME, March 4), Sukarno's loudest and most effective support has come from the Communists. The President argued that he was riding a three-legged horse unless the Communists (among the top four votegetters in Indonesia) were included in the government, and over a protest of other parties...
Last week, as Sukarno's opponents had predicted, the Communists began to convert presidential smiles into the hard currency of power. In the first of a series of local elections, Indonesia's capital city of Djakarta (pop. 4,000,000) voted in a new municipal council. Two years ago, in Indonesia's first general election, the Communists ran a poor fourth in Djakarta. This time, trading on Sukarno's almost mystic hold over the Indonesian masses, the Reds increased their vote from 96,000 to 135,000, ran second only to the powerful Masjumi (Moslem) Party...
Countries represented include the Belgian Congo, Ceylon, China, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaya, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Phillipines, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Vietnam, and the United States...