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...Jakarta, Indonesia...
...London for lunch and a short talk with Prime Minister Churchill. This week he was scheduled to go on to Paris and Bonn, visit Canadian army and air force bases, then continue the six week, 30,000-mile tour that will take him to Rome, Karachi, New Delhi, Colombo, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul and Tokyo...
...raiding Western shipping, and attacking fortified towns in quest of slaves, concubines and booty. In modern times they have been peaceful farmers, fishermen and plantation workers. But they still reach for their weapons when aroused; and last week the Achinese were in bloody revolt against the Indonesian government at Jakarta, on the neighboring (and more populous) island of Java...
...Achinese resented the dominance of Java and of the Javanese in the central government and the government's plain lack of interest in the welfare of outlying provinces. Last summer when a new government was formed at Jakarta, under Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo, the Achinese cup of wrath brimmed over. The new regime was supported by the Communists (though not Communist itself), and no member of the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, Indonesia's largest, was in the cabinet...
...fertile West Java, Darul Islam set up a rival government, collected taxes, recruited a large army and successfully defied the flabby, frightened Indonesian cabinets that regularly succeeded one another. At first the Jakarta governments laughed off the rebels as "high-spirited young men still excited by events." When Kartosuwirjo's raiders cut railroad lines, ambushed convoys, even looted the suburbs of the capital city of Jakarta, the government finally sent an army to stamp out the revolt. It soon learned that religion is stronger than politics in Moslem Indonesia. The government's Moslem troops balked at fighting their...