Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face-to-face sessions, will now move on to Thailand. Washington scuttlebutt: John Allison, 52, seasoned Far East hand and strong antiCommunist, offended Indonesia's sensitive nationalists, came under false but telling attack in Indonesia's Communist press on charges of plotting to overthrow President Sukarno. Behind-the-scenes word in Djakarta: Allison got out of step on policy with Secretary of State Dulles, urged the U.S. to listen with more sympathy to Indonesian claims to Dutch-held West New Guinea, predicted there might be a blowoff if it did not. Dulles, impressed with the need for friendship...
...banquet in Macmillan's honor, Neutralist Nehru warmly praised the British Prime Minister for his tentative endorsement a fortnight ago of an East-West nonaggression pact-an endorsement that Britain's Foreign Office has been trying to explain away ever since. Lunching with Indonesia's President Sukarno, who has made India his first stop on a six-week "rest cure" away from his fragmented country,* Macmillan listened noncommittally to an appeal for his aid in moderating Australian opposition to Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea...
Indonesia's President Sukarno, packing up for a six-week tour of nations ranging from India to Egypt and Japan, seemed in a heady mood. "Last year," he told a Djakarta gathering, "was the year of decision. We have reached the point of no return...
Last week, in an open letter that made headlines in every newspaper in Indonesia, Hatta made it perfectly clear that he, too, felt the Dutch must go. But he had nothing but scorn for Sukarno's tactics. Sukarno's policy of dramatics-and-damn-the-consequences was arbitrary, unrealistic and unnecessary. "If people are now forced to starve temporarily, it is the result of crazy steps organized by hot bloods who have done no clear-cut planning. It is not the Indonesian people who should suffer because of the stubbornness of the Dutch government, but the Dutch people...
...Hatta pointedly underscored what every informed Indonesian knew already: that the country has almost no navy or air force and could not possibly take Netherlands New Guinea forcibly no matter how belligerently Sukarno & Co. may sound off in Djakarta. "Our youth." said Hatta, "should not be asked to swim across the ocean to get West Irian. It is not through war that we will get back West Irian but by peaceful ways and means...