Word: sukarno
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Kwame Nkrumah, Indonesia's Sukarno, the U.A.R.'s Nasser and Yugoslavia's Tito had already announced that they would be in New York, and Ceylon's Mrs. Bandaranaike was making interested noises. In Latin America, the only chief of government who was publicly committed to come so far was the Dominican Republic's Generalissimo Trujillo, who is making a show of turning toward Russia out of fury at the U.S. But odds were that Trujillo's bitter enemy and presumptive "neutralist" bedfellow, Fidel Castro, would also be on hand...
...hazardous. Hardly had the Doorman left Rotterdam when the Russians accused the Dutch of increasing the danger of war in Southeast Asia, the Australians (who occupy the other half of New Guinea) asked for an explanation, and Indonesia sent a formal note of protest. To avoid the probability that Sukarno would ask his neutralist friend Nasser to refuse to let the Doorman through the Suez Canal, the carrier was sent the long way around the Cape of Good Hope...
...docking lines. The Doorman cranked up her aircraft and maneuvered to her berth by using the propeller blasts to nudge alongside the dock. At Hollandia, New Guinea, the Doorman unloaded twelve obsolescent Hawker Hunter turbojets to bolster the small Dutch defense forces. Crying "Horrid imperialists," Indonesia's President Sukarno broke off diplomatic relations with The Netherlands...
Instead, he sang the praises of the hand-picked "Mutual Help" Assembly with which he has replaced Indonesia's former elected Parliament and glowed over the new National Front, a "nonpolitical" movement consisting of Sukarno's own Nationalist Party, the inept Moslem Teacher's Party and the dazed Communists, who find Sukarno even more disruptive than they are. The National Front, Sukarno predicted, would always reach unanimous agreement on everything "without taking votes." Then, as a lesson to those who still thought there might be something in voting, he abruptly announced a ban against two of Indonesia...
Keep 'Em Roaring. All this left the crowd in front of Djakarta's handsome Merdeka Palace uncommonly apathetic. But like the skilled spellbinder he is. Sukarno finally got his audience roaring with a burst of demagogic thunder in which he attacked The Netherlands for sending an aircraft carrier and 1,000 troop reinforce ments to neighboring Dutch New Guinea - which Sukarno claims is part of Indo nesia and properly called "West Irian." Sneering at The Netherlands as a "country of small creditors that still preserves its taste for colonialism," Sukarno wound up by announcing the breaking...