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...tiny Sultanate of Brunei, adjoining Sarawak on the northwest coast of Borneo, was once a great, warlike nation. In the 16th century its navies spread terror through the Java and Malacca Seas. But Brunei, like many of its neighbors in Malaysia, fell upon hard times. Its fleets rotted away; fierce Sulu pirates came to take its strongest people captive and sell them in the slave markets. In the middle of the last century, Brunei was forced to seek protection from another island kingdom, Great Britain, whose fleets were in better shape. As recently as 25 years ago, once proud Brunei...
Joseph Brown Matthews began his career about as far away as possible from the Washington limelight-as a Methodist missionary in Java. He was a brilliant linguist, but his sympathy for Indonesian nationalists made him unpopular with the islands' Dutch masters as well as executives of his own mission. Back in the U.S., he studied at several seminaries, then joined the faculty of Scarritt, a training college for Methodist church workers in Nashville, Tenn. He was forced to leave because of his liberal views. Recalls Hutchinson: there was a "furor over an interracial party held in his home...
...whose investigating committee three weeks ago hired J. B. Matthews as its executive director. Few Americans have held a Red hunting license longer or beat the bushes harder than J. B. Matthews. After getting an A.B. degree from Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky., he was a Methodist lay missionary in Java, translated a hymnal into Malay, later studied at Union Theological Seminary, taught Oriental languages and current events at Fisk and Howard Universities for Negroes. He became a Socialist, and, unlike most U.S. Socialists, an active fellow traveler of the Communists, belonging to 28 Commie fronts. In 1934 he broke with...
...Architecture of India, by Harvard Professor Benjamin Rowland, covers 4,000 years of history in 269 pages of text and 190 pages of photographs, touches on everything from India's complex civilization of 2500 B.C. to the fantastic, Buddha-studded temples of 8th-9th century Java...
...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...