Word: java
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Just before noon of the day after Queen Juliana's announcement, two C-475 bearing Indonesian President Soekarno and his official party swept over the city from the mountains of central Java. Soekarno, whom most Indonesians regard as the personification of independence, had been driven from Jakarta by the Dutch almost exactly four years ago. A roar of welcome ascended as the planes reached the runway. President Soekarno, wearing a white uniform and black Moslem hat, climbed into an open Packard convertible and headed into the city. Behind him, over a distance of four miles, tumultuously happy crowds boiled...
...Dutchmen whose hardheaded commercial dealings had founded the empire. (Their pictures would soon be replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures of the past into a truck to begin their long voyage home...
With Folkways Library albums come booklets describing the music and its native performance (e.g., the music-dramas of Java and Bali last all night). The booklets are written by anthropologists and musicologists, edited by Folklorist Harold Courlander, who also decides what selections go into the albums. Says he: "The more you hear of this stuff, the more you get to feel that all music is one. I like to think of it as a spectrum. As you go round the world, one music blends into the next . . . and before you know it you're back where you started, without...
...diplomatic obstacle in the way of a conference at The Hague, scheduled for Aug. 1. There Dutch and Indonesian delegates would try to set up the United States of Indonesia, a sovereign nation with a status equal to The Netherlands' own under the Dutch crown. The Indonesian Republic (Java) would have a large but not necessarily a dominant voice in the U.S.I. The Dutch hoped that more moderate elements in the other islands would balance Javanese extremists and thus form a basis for an orderly transfer of rule...
This time, the Republicans dressed up their account of Tan's execution with details. Tan, they said, was executed by a firing squad April 9, near Blitar, in East Java. The Republicans also reported that they had executed three other Communist chieftains: former Premier Amir Sjarifoed-den, R. M. Suripino, a former Republican diplomat, and a Communist Party secretary named Hadjono...