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Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
...last week it was clearly too late in Indonesia for restoration of full Dutch imperial rule, too early for stable native government. Was it too late for cooperation between Dutch and Indonesians in a framework of expanding independence? From Batavia, TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod cabled a gloomy forecast...
...Indonesian (5 ft. 8 in.) and, by native standards, superlatively handsome. His Malay is self-consciously choice; in fact, he is so insistent on advancing the native speech that he is called Indonesia's Webster (meaning Noah, not Daniel). He is quite an orator, too-TIME'S Sherrod cabled the following picture of Soekarno addressing an audience of 5,,000 women...
...Indonesians govern themselves? Says Correspondent Sherrod: "They have done surprisingly well, and with some assistance-Dutch or otherwise-I think they can. Van Mook says the Indonesians have matured more in the past five years than in the previous...
...most impressive list of alumni of all our domestic bureaus. They include Walter Graebner, European Area Director for TIME-LIFE International; Eleanor Welch and Fillmore Calhoun. assistants to the Chief of Foreign Correspondents; Sidney James, LIFE'S National Affairs Editor; James McConaughy Jr., Ottawa bureau chief; Robert Sherrod, TIME'S roving correspondent in the Pacific; David Hulburd, chief of all TIME'S domestic news bureaus. Like many another TIMEman who learned his trade in the field, they have brought to their new jobs at home and abroad a first-hand knowledge of the kind of local coverage...