Word: sukarno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work, was particularly brilliant. And it would be unfair not to recognize Mussolini's great qualities of political imagination. Other dictators, from Hitler and Nasser to Sukarno and Fidel Castro, are inferior imitators...
...setting was exquisite, the guest list impressive, and, as President Sukarno paid tribute to himself on the tenth anniversary of the birth of the Afro-Asian bloc at nearby Bandung, his taste was as impeccable as ever. Screening off unsightly slum areas, Sukarno laced Djakarta's avenues with flags and festive arches, assigned each of the 35 Afro-Asian emissaries-from Chou En-lai to Imperial Princess Ashraf of Iran-his own personal motorcade, complete with screaming sirens. Best of all was the state banquet, held in the candlelit Bali Room of the Hotel Indonesia. There, while Javanese maidens...
Truth to tell, the whole show was a bomb. Hoping to promote his new division of the world into "Nefos" (New Emerging Forces) and "Oldefos" (Old Established Forces), Sukarno had invited 60 emerging nations, advertised that 20 heads of state or government would be on hand. But 24 potential Nefos were disturbed enough at his U.N. walkout last January to turn him down flat, and only Peking and its satellites sent their top men. Of the five sponsors of the 1955 Bandung Conference, only Sukarno was on hand as boss of a nation. Nasser dispatched a Vice President, Burma...
Paraded from ceremony to ceremony, the delegates at hand spent much of their time untangling their motorcades, found themselves protected by such rigorous security measures that it was almost impossible to confer privately even with each other. Although Sukarno got off three rip-roaring attacks on imperialists and their "nonaligned" lackeys, he denied the platform to all but seven of his guests-and then ordered the suppression of an Algerian speech defending the U.N. Thailand's Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman flew home early and a bored Egyptian diplomat shrugged, "This Bandung thing is only to appease Sukarno...
...emotional force behind that revolution. But the readers of the work who really matter are the would-be leaders in the jungles and mountains of Africa and Asia. Its ideas have already found bloody reality in the Simba massacres in the Congo, in the shouts of Indonesia's Sukarno against "neocolonialism," and in Red China's rallying call to the Afro-Asian nations to turn their backs on the West...