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Last week, in a drab Young Men's Hall in Tokyo, some 3,500 Communist Party members and fellow travelers were legally gathered to review the new party program. Some in the audience were already beginning to drowse under the somniferous spell of Marxist platitudes when the chairman of the meeting suddenly barked: "We have an important announcement to make . . ." Before he could finish it, three men in light grey summer suits, Panama hats in hand, walked briskly down the aisle toward the rostrum. The crowd recognized Sanzo Nozaka, who is Japan's No. 1 Communist since...
...went on to expand on his points: Industry. "Conditions in America are very advanced and none can reach, let alone surpass, the progress in that country," said onetime Marxist U Nu. He cited examples. He had been skeptical that Ford could put a car together in two minutes, but while he watched, Ford workmen put one together in 58 seconds. In Knoxville, Tenn., a waiter in a small hotel told him he owned two cars (one for himself and one for his wife) and earned as much money as the Premier...
...once again Colonel Lubis, now 33 and the army's deputy chief of staff, was in the thick of it, but not on Soekarno's side. The officers who lead Indonesia's quarter-million-man army were in revolt against Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, an admitted Marxist. They refused to accept a chief of staff he approved. Backed by the army brass, Colonel Lubis stood firm against both Kusumasumantri and Premier Ali Sastroamidjojo's government, which President Soekarno has repeatedly shored up with his own personal prestige...
With the army's ranks unbroken, Marxist Kusumasumantri finally had to quit his defense post, and last week he joined Soekarno on a flying pilgrimage to Mecca. Five days later, Ali Sastroamidjojo's government fell. It had held power for two years, longer than any other of Indonesia's twelve governments in the country's ten years of independence. Involved in the fall was Soekarno's own prestige, though he remains his country's most popular figure...
Later, Krishna Menon danced around a question about whether he is a Marxist, and slipped into a revealing statement of India-style policymaking: "Well, I haven't heard myself called [Marxist]," he said. "That is a new one on me, but if it is so, there is no objection . . . So far as the policy of our country is concerned . . . if any particular outlook becomes advantageous...