Word: soedjatmoko
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...conference. There were few questions asked and many speeches made. Lines of argument were rarely followed up. The participants sat while one would-be lecturer after another stood, carved out rounded arguments, presented them with self-conscious eloquence, and then sat down with satisfaction. At one point, R. M. Soedjatmoko, the Indonesian Ambassador to the United States and one of the most provocative of the conference members, asked the American participants to please define precisely what the liberal institutions of America are, and precisely what their crisis entails. That was well into the second day of discussion, and it struck...
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