Word: indonesians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After six weeks' inquiry, an Indonesian investigating commission last week brought in its findings on the Air India Constellation which crashed, killing 16 persons, including eight Red Chinese on their way (after a stopover in Hong Kong) to the Bandung Conference (TIME, April 25). Verdict: sabotage. Having salvaged almost 90% of the wreckage from the shallow waters off Great Natuna Island in the South China Sea, the commission said that it found "positive evidence of an explosion in the starboard wheel-well of a timed infernal machine." The evidence consisted of 1) "deep pitting by shrapnel." 2) "a hole...
...Upset at Bandung (see FOREIGN NEWS). "The principal feature of any international conference is confusion.'' he cabled. Bandung was no exception. Martin worked day and night, fathoming the multilingual confusion, and fighting his dispatches through already overtaxed cable offices - all the while sustaining himself on such peppery Indonesian fare as meat with chili, potatoes with chili and ferns with chili, washed down with a cloyingly sweet cider...
...week's end, code machines chattered as the diplomats took counsel. There was little enthusiasm for an Indonesian proposal that the Colombo powers mediate (too clumsy) or for another Geneva-type conference (the U.S. disapproved). By default, hopes centered on Jawaharlal Nehru. The question was whether his intervention would do more harm than good. He was insisting that Red China's ultimate right to Formosa must be recognized first, but had reportedly conceded, at the urging of Commonwealth colleagues, that Formosa might be granted 20 years of interim independence under a U.N. mandate. Vastly relishing his role, Nehru...
India's Jawaharlal Nehru was the busiest man in London last week. Britain's Anthony Eden wooed him, Burmese and Indonesian envoys sought him out. Communist China's chief representative conferred with him twice. So did U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich, who got the full treatment on the "Asian" view of Formosa, featuring Red China's indisputable right to Formosa and the U.S.'s "interference" in Asia's affairs...
...Socialists. But even if The Socialists have better brains, they seem no less infected with the same blinding anti-Western bias. Anti-Westernism runs, too, through the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the country's largest, though both Moslems and Socialists are at least antiCommunist. Last week the Indonesian Minister of Information gave a small party for press attaches and foreign newsmen. The feature of the evening was movies - a short on a glass factory in Leningrad, another on modern apartments Moscow, and a full-length Russian film in color...