Word: subandrio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schoolboy. As the deadline approached, Indonesia's Communist Party abandoned its pro-Sukarno stance for the first time. Party Secretary D. N. Aidit called the anti-Chinese law "shoddy chauvinism, inspired by racial hatred and a desire for personal gain." Peking sent what Indonesia's Foreign Minister Subandrio called "as peremptory a diplomatic note" as Indonesia had ever received. Alarmed, Subandrio hustled off to the Red mainland to talk things over. He got the cold shoulder. Roused from his bed in the middle of the night to see Mao, he was lectured like an errant schoolboy. Complaining...
...beautiful fourth wife, Hartini, made an unprecedented visit to Ambassador Jones's Dutch colonial residence for lunch. Sukarno jovially shook hands with the four U.S. marines of the embassy guard; he toasted President Eisenhower and the American people in orange squash. Purred another guest, Foreign Minister Subandrio: "We insiders, who know the process of thinking of Dulles and the setup of the State Department, realize that Indonesian-U.S. relations are improving...
...publications, films and news agencies were banned. In Djakarta, Indonesian papers reported that Indonesian passengers and crewmen had forcibly prevented Dutch captains from diverting Dutch-owned ships into "neutral ports." The Indonesian government ordered its 5,000 nationals in The Netherlands to leave at once. In Paris, Foreign Minister Subandrio declared that a complete break in Indonesian-Dutch diplomatic relations was "only a matter of time...
Sukarno and Voroshilov had already entered the palace grounds safely, but Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio was not so fortunate: he stumbled about, blinded by tear gas, while the crowd smashed the windows of his limousine. The rioters, whose anger was now directed at the Russians, ripped down huge Russian flags, trampled an enormous picture of Voroshilov into shreds. On the pillar of a white ceremonial arch erected in Voroshilov's honor one demonstrator scrawled the words: "Go home...