Word: iwa
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Appeasement. Last week Indonesia's bullnecked Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri made a quick, one-day visit to the Atjeh battle zone. What he found was that the government held only some stretches of the east-coast railway, a few strong points on the coast, and that Moslems in the government units were defecting to the rebels in large numbers...
Catholics, Democrats and Christians were out. So were the Socialists and the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, the nation's largest; both have been moderately sympathetic to the West. Solidly in were left-wing Nationalists and a few obscure parties of the left-wing bloc. Bull-necked Marxist Iwa Kusumasumantri, jailed in 1946 for his part in the Communist Tan Malaka rebellion, was named Minister of Defense. The new Justice Minister has attended Communist peace rallies; the new Foreign Secretary signed the Stockholm peace appeal. Pro-Communists held the Ministries of Finance and Education...
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