Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indonesia's civil war has so far appeared more comic opera than tragedy. Yet it is closely watched by men in the U.S. State Department and in other chancelleries, East and West. Many in the free world! who would breathe easier if President Sukarno's Red-propped government tumbled, were examining the Central Sumatran revolution for the two prime requisites of successful revolutions: 1) united, vigorous leadership, and 2) the will to fight. So far, Indonesia's dissidents have shown a disheartening lack of both...
First Allies. Across the mountainous spinal column of Sumatra, the rebel colonels holed up around Padang and Bukittinggi and breathed defiance. Rebel Premier Sjafruddin cried that if Sukarno "were now in our midst, he would be hanged as a war criminal." The rebel radio charged that Sukarno had been a Communist since 1955. Posters and wall signs denounced Sukarno as a murderer, an immoral man and worse. Rebel Colonel Ahmad Husein. who is apparently acting as overall military commander, broadcast somewhat superfluously that "from this moment on, we do not recognize Sukarno as President of the Indonesian Republic...
Three-Legged Horse. Sukarno came back to Djakarta full of wonder. "I've seen the answer in China," he told inti mates. "Now we must do something. Ev ery country in the world seems to make progress but Indonesia." His new political idea: "guided democracy." It was based, he said, on the ancient village idea of gotong-royong, mutual help, a sort of village meeting where all the elders discuss and discuss a proposition until they are in unanimous agreement. There was no vote, because votes produce majorities and minorities, and such division of the people leads to unhappiness...
Scarcely three months later, Sukarno was in the Soviet Union and delighting his new hosts by implying a close identity the Soviet struggle against capital ism and Indonesia's against colonialism. The Russians spared no effort, furnished his Aeroflot plane with a pretty, blonde stewardess and interpreter named Valentina Reshetnyak. Sukarno imperially arranged for the interpreter to visit him in Djakarta, where she still remains...
...peak of stage management was achieved by Red China. Hundreds of thousands lined the roads as Sukarno passed; schoolchildren paraded, youth groups cried "Hidup Bung Karno!" Flow ers and confetti and drums and songs greeted his every appearance. Chou En-lai personally showed him factories and bridges. After Russia, Sukarno had observed dubiously: "One can see the price of their achievement in the faces of their people." But here were Communists who smiled...