Word: indonesian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow President Sukarno. Behind-the-scenes word in Djakarta: Allison got out of step on policy with Secretary of State Dulles, urged the U.S. to listen with more sympathy to Indonesian claims to Dutch-held West New Guinea, predicted there might be a blowoff if it did not. Dulles, impressed with the need for friendship with the Dutch and the Australians (who hold the eastern half of New Guinea), elected to keep out of the whole New Guinea dispute. Allison also...
...U.S.S.R. in 1956. But Indonesia has accepted 4,500 Russian jeeps (purchased with a $6,000,000 credit), and near Djokjakarta 40 East German technicians, backed up by a $13 million East German credit, are rebuilding a war-damaged sugar mill. Neither deal has proved very popular. Style-conscious Indonesians find the rough-finish GAZ jeeps unimpressive, and the sugar-mill project is already two years behind schedule. "What those so-called technicians are doing I don't know," complains one annoyed Indonesian official. But, angered by U.S. hesitation to meet its request for arms, the Indonesian government...
...Djakarta's moldering port of Tandjong Priok, sweltering Dutch housewives and pathetic clusters of elderly women waited solemnly while customs and immigration officials examined their documents and belongings. The Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...
...Indonesian officials in Djakarta announced that because the U.S. had delayed so long in answering their request for arms, they may send a mission to Eastern Europe to see if they can buy Communist arms to beef up their obsolete arsenal...
...Washington. State Department officials diplomatically said that the Indonesian inquiries were still under discussion. This was another way of saying that the U.S. would want to take a careful look before selling arms to a nation whose best-organized political party is the Communists and whose avowed antagonist is The Netherlands, a U.S. ally in NATO...