Word: sukarno
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...Bandung President Sukarno was in his element: standing on a platform with thousands of upturned faces before him. He spoke with the confidence of a shrewd gambler who has doubled his bets, week after week, and won them all. The rebels, he cried, were nearly finished. The "foreign adventurers from Formosa and the U.S." had been foiled. He suggested that the U.S. "conduct a reappraisal of its policy" with regard to Indonesia. There was nothing to fear, Sukarno boasted, because "all I have to do is wink" and "volunteers" would come pouring in from Red China and the Soviet Union...
...That was Sukarno's first venture in winksmanship, four weeks ago. His second came when U.S. Ambassador Howard P. Jones was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Djakarta and told that army intelligence reported that a Nationalist Chinese battalion had landed in North Celebes to help the beleaguered rebels. Ambassador Jones knew that the report was absurd, but he also got the diplomatic point. Sukarno was demanding that the U.S. stop being "neutral" about the Indonesian civil war and take a stand...
...Lunch. Sukarno won all down the line. While Moscow and Peking clamored their willingness to send hordes of "volunteers." Washington did a nearly complete about-face. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a press conference that the rebellion was, of course, an "Indonesian matter" to be dealt with by Indonesians alone; the State Department promptly issued licenses for the immediate sale of small arms and munitions to Djakarta; the U.S. eagerly agreed to send Indonesia $5,500,000 worth of badly needed rice. All of these measures had been proposed even before the rebellion began by the then...
...even from the United States" were responsible (President Eisenhower's answer: "Our policy is one of careful neutrality and proper deportment . . . Now, on the other hand, every rebellion that I have ever heard of has its soldiers of fortune."). Advising the U.S. "not to play with fire," Sukarno added: "If the outside world is thinking in terms of making Indonesia into a second Korea or a second Viet Nam, there will be World...
...Hired Killers." In Menado, the rebels answered that all of their pilots were Indonesians, although some of them were "of Chinese descent." Rebel Colonel Joop Warouw went on to accuse Sukarno of himself employing foreigners, especially Czech pilots who flew against the rebels as "hired killers." He added ominously: "We warn Sukarno that unless all Soviet technicians, advisers and naval officers disguised as merchant-ship captains, leave Indonesia immediately, we will not hesitate to accept open aid from the anti-Communist bloc...