Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quickly as possible. If someone suggested that a people was not yet ready for freedom, the answer was that, as G. K. Chesterton said of blowing one's nose, there are some things that people can do better for themselves than anyone can do for them. In Indonesia, in Morocco and elsewhere, the U.S. has learned that to receive independence requires as much self-discipline and maturity as to give...
Nations which get their independence by exercising a boundless nationalism often appear incapable of keeping their nationalism within boundaries. A case in point: the inchoate Republic of Indonesia, which cannot govern itself but claims half of New Guinea. Another: Egypt, which had hardly said goodbye to the British before it was reaching out for the Sudan. But these claims hardly match those of the new Sherman Empire of Morocco, which until a year ago was a part-French, part-Spanish protectorate. Fanatical Moroccan nationalists have staked out a claim to a slice of northwest Africa roughly equal in area...
...separatist movements, from the northern tip of Sumatra on the Indian Ocean to Borneo, the Celebes and Amboina, some 3,000 miles away in the Banda Sea. There was a new outbreak in South Sumatra. It is largely the reputation of Sukarno that holds the sprawling Republic of Indonesia together, but what threatened to sever it last week was a recent decision by Sukarno himself: to include Indonesia's Communists in his government...
There was a further shock in store for Sukarno, who hitherto has enjoyed almost complete freedom from criticism. Though many army officers have participated in separatist revolts in East Indonesia and Sumatra (TIME. Dec. 31), Army Chief of Staff General Abdul Haris Nasution has been unswervingly loyal to Sukarno. Last week, in a blunt, private session with the President. Good Soldier Nasution told Sukarno flatly that taking Communists into the government could well lead to all-out civil war. A high-ranking Moslem politician was still more forthright. "If the Communists come in," he said, "we will take...
...marked his dealings with the Communists. "You talk of wanting independence from foreign intervention," said the visitor, "but the Communist Party is not a national Indonesian party-it represents a foreign power." The President flushed in anger, clenched his fist and replied: "If I learn and can prove that Indonesia's Communists are being actively supported from outside this country, I will crush them...