Word: indonesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this year's foreign visitors to Washington have left behind so many favorable impressions as Indonesia's President Sukarno (TIME, May 28). On the next leg of his world tour, Sukarno turned his steps toward Moscow. Said Sukarno, no Red but Asia's top neutralist after Nehru: "I am not going to the Communist countries to seek a state of mind. I already know the Marxist state of mind. I am going to see whether or not they have carried out their ideals...
...nations, controlling 95% of Suez shipping, supported Dulles' plan, and of the four opposing (India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Russia), only Russia questioned its good faith. Even India's Krishna Menon, who had pushed an alternative plan giving control of the canal to Egypt, wound up saying "we will be only too happy" if the majority plan leads to a settlement. The one diehard of the conference turned out to be Russia's freshman Minister of Foreign Affairs Dimitry Shepilov, whose smiles, dinner parties and fine talk of "international cooperation" had raised Western hopes of a broad settlement...
While back in Indonesia, President Sukarno was crying (in English) "Hands off Egypt!" at a Djakarta mass meeting, one of his delegates was saying privately in London: "We young nations need the tools of industrialization that come to us through the canal−and we cannot afford, as you can, to have them go round the longer and more expensive way. This is what we are telling Nasser." France's Foreign Minister Pineau made the same point to the conference, in a shrewd effort to divert the issue from Nasser's cry of colonialism...
When I consider the 80 million Moslems in Indonesia and the 50 million in China, and the millions in Malaya, Siam and Burma, and the close to 100 million in the Middle East, and the 40 million inside the Soviet Union, and the other millions in far-flung parts of the world−when I consider these hundreds of millions united by a single creed, I emerge with a sense of the tremendous possibilities which we may realize through the cooperation of all these Moslems, a cooperation not going beyond the bounds of their natural loyalty to their own countries...
...smaller and the country's potential market bigger than it had calculated. Already losing 10% to 30% of the value of the bartered rice, Burma decided to lower slightly the prices on the rest of the crop. It found itself besieged by cash customers: India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaya. Now Burma faces a frustrating problem: there is not enough exportable rice to supply cash customers and at the same time fulfill barter obligations (600,000 tons a year) to the Iron Curtain countries. Burma has already mortgaged some of its 1957 crop to meet 1956 commitments. Worst...