Word: sartono
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...York, investment bankers waited nervously for each new report from Djakarta. Then at midweek Premier Djuanda announced that Sukarno was tired and exhausted from overwork, would leave shortly for rest and recuperation in a friendly country, presumably India or Egypt. In Sukarno's absence, Parliament Speaker Sartono would serve as Acting President, working in cooperation with Premier Djuanda and Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, chief of staff of the Indonesian army. There was talk that former Vice President Mohammed Hatta, who resigned last year in protest against Sukarno's attempt to set up a "guided democracy...
Premier Djuanda, a Socialist non-party man, asked Parliament to swear in Speaker Sartono, a 56-year-old moderate Nationalist, as acting president, but a government spokesman indicated the Premier and General Nasutin actually will run things...