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...banners. At a meeting of Leningrad engineering workers, who offered to help industrialize Indonesia, Sukarno, himself an engineer (Bandung Technical Institute), let his emotion overflow: "My heart brims with love and gratitude. I beg you not to address me as . . . Your Excellency. I beg you to call me Bung Karno [Brother Karno...
...Japanese during the war, worked with the U.S. and the U.N. afterward, always striving to keep the Dutch out. In December 1949 the Dutch were finally out, and Sukarno was in as first President. Today his country is near bankruptcy and revolt-racked, but adoring masses hail "Bung Karno" (Brother Karno), worship him as liberator of the land. A neutralist in the cold war, he plays hot and cold with the Communists. In 1948 he drowned a Red revolt in blood, in 1956 tried his hardest to bring Reds into the Cabinet. Played host to the Bandung Conference, at which...
Died. John Westcott ("Fred Karno"), 75, veteran English music-hall comic and producer; in Parkstone, England. In 1906 he hired an unknown named Charles Chaplin, made him into a music-hall star, took him to the U.S. in 1913, lost him to Mack Sennett...