Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British-American conflict seethes through the Middle East. Beside it the joint Anglo-American opposition to Communism is a half-forgotten, far-off thing. Present British Middle East policies have their roots in traditional Tory policies. Britain's prewar Tory policy was to keep the Moslem world divided and weak, politically and economically, so that British traders could operate on terms advantageous to them. The U.S. today sees the Middle East (as it sees almost all international problems) largely as part of the struggle with world Communism; Middle East weakness creates a dangerous power vacuum that cannot be filled...
...units and Coca-Cola, labor strife came last week to Saudi Arabia. The country's first real labor disturbance caught the government completely unprepared, for 73-year-old King Ibn Saud had never got around to making any law for or against strikes, while the devisers of the Moslem Sharia (sacred law) had never anticipated a Taft-Hartley world...
Sumatra, the second largest island in Indonesia, straddles the equator and points northwest into the rolling blue wastes of the Bay of Bengal. On the island's tip, in the province of Atjeh, live about 1,000,000 Achinese, a proud and irritable people, unshakably Moslem, the first Indonesians to embrace Islam in the 11th century and the last to be pacified by the Dutch (1904). Some centuries ago the Achinese were intrepid pirates, raiding Western shipping, and attacking fortified towns in quest of slaves, concubines and booty. In modern times they have been peaceful farmers, fishermen and plantation...
...lack of interest in the welfare of outlying provinces. Last summer when a new government was formed at Jakarta, under Prime Minister Ali Sastroamidjojo, the Achinese cup of wrath brimmed over. The new regime was supported by the Communists (though not Communist itself), and no member of the Masjumi (Moslem) Party, Indonesia's largest, was in the cabinet...
Secession. The angry Achinese rallied around Teuku Daud Beureuh, a former military governor of Atjeh. Beureuh was in touch with another Moslem rebel, Kartosuwirjo, who had been defying the government for three years from the wilds of West Java. In September, Beureuh seceded from Indonesia-that is, he proclaimed Atjeh a part of an autonomous Islamic state headed by Kartosuwirjo. At the same time 10,000 of his Achinese warriors, wearing homemade black uniforms and brandishing swords, cutlasses, kukris and even kitchen knives, attacked government police and military posts in eleven Atjeh towns. In most cases the rebels...