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Censors & Cannibals. The zoo-page report noted that considerable physical progress had been made in Netherlands New Guinea, particularly in the field of public health. But it also painted an unattractive picture of arbitrary, old-fashioned colonial rule: "In the prison at Doom . . . Indonesian infiltrators were housed six or eight to a small cell." In all Netherlands New Guinea, added the report, no private newspapers are published, and such news as is distributed by the government is carefully censored...
...Chinese markings covered over with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Chennault's swashbuckling CAT, the cargoes were rumored to be guns and munitions. But the continued string of rebel defeats and the new posture of cordial friendship between the U.S. and the Indonesian government of President Sukarno has had its effect: not a single Menado-bound plane has landed at Zamboanga since...
...black B-26 turned out to sea after bombing the Indonesian port of Amboina, guns opened up from ground installations and government patrol boats in the harbor. The B-26 shuddered, and two men bailed out before it died in a splash of sea spray. One, an Indonesian rebel, was fished out of the water. The other got his parachute fouled in a palm tree on a coral reef, and, in freeing himself, fell to the ground and broke his right thigh. For the Indonesians, he was an impressive catch. His name: Allen Lawrence Pope. Nationality: U.S.A. Florida-born Allen...
...Lunch. Sukarno won all down the line. While Moscow and Peking clamored their willingness to send hordes of "volunteers." Washington did a nearly complete about-face. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a press conference that the rebellion was, of course, an "Indonesian matter" to be dealt with by Indonesians alone; the State Department promptly issued licenses for the immediate sale of small arms and munitions to Djakarta; the U.S. eagerly agreed to send Indonesia $5,500,000 worth of badly needed rice. All of these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then...
...government's victory became assured, Indonesian officials spoke enthusiastically about the "new understanding" between Djakarta and Washington. President Sukarno and his beautiful fourth wife, Hartini, made an unprecedented visit to Ambassador Jones's Dutch colonial residence for lunch. Sukarno jovially shook hands with the four U.S. marines of the embassy guard; he toasted President Eisenhower and the American people in orange squash. Purred another guest, Foreign Minister Subandrio: "We insiders, who know the process of thinking of Dulles and the setup of the State Department, realize that Indonesian-U.S. relations are improving...