Word: sukarnoism
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...letter to neutralist Presidents Keita of Mali and Sukarno of Indonesia (see following story), President Kennedy warned that "we do not intend to enter into negotiations under ultimata or threats. It is also clear that we do not propose to discuss either abdication of our responsibility or renunciation of the modalities for carrying out those responsibilities . . . We are prepared to meet force with force if it is used against us." Later, Secretary of State Dean Rusk warned Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov that any further unilateral action in Berlin by the Russians and the East Germans would obliterate hope for rational...
...long tended to consider foreign policy as a public-relations gimmick, forgetting that policy is a question of power. "This world opinion we pay so much attention to is largely a myth," he says. "It is true that there are a few spokesmen around who always react-Nehru, Sukarno and others-but they are just expressing an opinion, and their remarks are meant mainly for their own countries. This isn't world opinion at all; yet we act as if it were. For instance, what was the world opinion reaction to the resumption of Soviet nuclear tests...
...other. Yugoslavia's President Tito condemned France for failing "to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations on the discontinuance of atomic tests." He was willing to forgive Russia, "because we can understand the reasons adduced by the government of the U.S.S.R." Indonesia's Sukarno and Ghana's Nkrumah echoed Tito...
During the feverish, all-night attempt to draft a final communiqué, Indonesia's Sukarno begged the conference to support his demand for West Irian; Morocco's King Hassan II urged his claim against Mauritania. Nehru's coalition vetoed mention of either. An Arab resolution condemning Israel was knocked out by Burma's U Nu, a good friend of Ben-Gurion...
Nehru-already scheduled to go to Moscow from Belgrade on a state visit-and Nkrumah were asked to take the Khrushchev letter. Sukarno then proposed that he and Mali's President Modibo Keita carry the Kennedy letter to Washington as official messengers. At the word "official." Nehru blew up. He would not be anybody's messenger, he declared. He would carry the message only in an unofficial capacity, insisted that Nkrumah go in a separate plane...