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...Communists are the only street organization Kassem has, and, playing the game they played so long with Sukarno in Indonesia, they show themselves more loyal than anyone else to the nation's boss, increasing his dependence on them. Moscow obviously wants (as does the U.S. and Britain) an independent Iraq as a counterweight to Nasser...
Indonesia's neutralist President Sukarno, who only last May was blustering that "all I have to do is wink" to get Communist aid, put on a broad smile and invited U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones to a garden party in the President's countryside palace in Java. Partners in a loose-limbed, international version of the native scarf dance: Jones and Brenda Pavlic, wife of the Yugoslav ambassador, Sukarno and Mrs. James C. Baird Jr., wife of the ICA Director for Indonesia...
...with hasty coats of paint, their pilots were Chinese and Americans from Chennault's swashbuckling CAT, the cargoes were rumored to be guns and munitions. But the continued string of rebel defeats and the new posture of cordial friendship between the U.S. and the Indonesian government of President Sukarno has had its effect: not a single Menado-bound plane has landed at Zamboanga since...
...Djakarta, in evident eagerness to keep alive the new friendship with the U.S., Sukarno made no big show of the prize captive, but left the announcement to be made by the military commander at Amboina, Lieut. Colonel Herman Pieters. Pieters was himself briefly a member of the rebel colonels. He quoted Pilot Pope as saying that he had been hired by the rebels at $10,000 a month and had flown most of the destructive missions over East Indonesia in which foreign and native shipping was sunk and damaged (TIME, May 12). Pope, a serious and not a swashbuckling type...
...government's victory became assured, Indonesian officials spoke enthusiastically about the "new understanding" between Djakarta and Washington. President Sukarno and his 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...