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...Egypt, large numbers of Jewish businessmen were arrested on false charges. Wahed remembers how the government confiscated his family’s business and home. Malaka Bublil, another refugee and now an award winning human rights activist, recalls the expulsion of Libyan Jews, who were forced to leave with no more than $20 each. When she and her family fled on a bus to the airport, the driver tried to set it on fire. When 150,000 Jews were forced to leave Iraq, the Iraqi government seized their bank accounts, and allowed each of them to take only one suitcase...
...Batang Malaka, Malaya...
...difficulties, however, can be traced directly to Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, a bull-necked Marxist of 55, who professes not to be a Communist, though as a young man he went to meetings in Moscow, and in 1946 was jailed for his role in the Communist Tan Malaka uprising. Iwa has been weeding out anti-Communist officers, and he carefully limits supplies and ammunition to units and commanders not accounted faithful to him. His next ambition: to establish a separate territorial command which will give him military control over Djakarta...
...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...
...prove that their anti-Communist actions are as good as their intentions, Indonesian Republicans wound up a busy week (see above) by announcing the execution of Moscow-trained Tan Malaka, the slender, smooth-skinned Indonesian Communist leader who had ungraciously refused to comply with at least four previous Republican reports of his death...