Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carefully differentiated from conformity. That is the difference between our system and the Communist system ... We tolerate and welcome differences of opinion . . . Goodness knows, we don't want any satellites." When free world countries get into disputes in which the U.S. is not directly involved, e.g., the Dutch-Indonesian row about New Guinea, "we expect to continue to take a position of neutrality...
Cries for Blood. The Indonesian government was convinced that many Dutchmen were supporting rebel groups in the hills in a last-ditch fight against the new republic. In January 1954 it began to round up about 30 Dutch suspects, and Jungschlaeger was arrested and thrown in jail. Thirteen months later, he was haled into a dirty, steaming courtroom in Djakarta and charged with leading and supplying two terrorist bands of rebels, with the help of the U.S. embassy, the British, and assorted Dutch agencies. The prosecutor asked the death penalty...
Before long it became obvious that, whatever Jungschlaeger's guilt, the trial was overhung with political passions irrelevant to justice. Neither the judge nor the prosecutor was a lawyer. Unreproved, courtroom spectators cried out: "Death to Jungschlaeger." Defense lawyers were harassed. An Indonesian lawyer quit, declaring, "It is impossible for the defense to have its witnesses heard...
Wife Mieke, a teacher of Latin and Greek and no lawyer, was not cowed. When other Dutch lawyers refused to defend Jungschlaeger in such circumstances, she took over the case. Indonesian mobs threw garbage at her, chanted "Dutch bitch" when they saw her. But Mieke Bouman doggedly carried on, and has become a heroine in The Netherlands...
...month. Leon Jungschlaeger waited out the closing weeks in a 5-ft.-by-9-ft. cell in Djakarta's Tjipinang Prison. Said the International Commission of Jurists: "It is abundantly clear . . . that the accused Jungschlaeger has not been accorded a fair trial." As the prosecutor delivered his rebuttal, Indonesian Judge Gustaaf Adolf Maengkom nodded approvingly from time to time. After all, six months ago he had told a reporter: "I know this man is guilty...