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Since when does a Moscow gallery employ four-star generals as museum guards, as described in the footnote to the photo of Indonesia's Sukarno [Sept. 17 ]? That ''non-destalinized" personage in the uniform of a Red army general must have won many a battle with art patrons in his capacity as museum guard to have earned four stars, the Order of the Red Banner and four rows of ribbons. I wonder...
September weather in Moscow is mild, but for Indonesia's President Sukarno there was evidently a chill in the air. "I come from ... a warm climate where it is not so cold as it is here," he told Soviet bigwigs, "but . . . your smiles have warmed me." The little President of the big and uncommitted republic of Southeast Asia flashed a friendly grin as he skipped through the Distinguished Visitors Routine (TIME, Sept. 17), but the grin was full of ambiguity. At a mass meeting in Moscow, sandwiched between effusive compliments, was a message that must have sounded strange...
Experts in this kind of doubletalk themselves, the Soviet leaders wrapped up Sukarno's visit in a joint communiqué piously proclaiming the "solidarity of the two governments," later let it be known that a $100 million loan to Indonesia (repayable in twelve years at 2½%) had been signed. Indonesia has already had a $100 million loan from the U.S. and last March received what amounted to a gift of U.S. surplus farm commodities worth $96 million. While some Indonesian officials were saying that, by comparison with the U.S. loans, the Soviet loan was "without strings," actually...
...guest and host seemed to be finding much common ground. But at Tashkent, an area where the Moslem faith has been rigorously suppressed by the Communists, Moslem Sukarno gave his favorite catchword a sharp twist. Pointing out that the first of the five principles of the Asian Panch Shila, upon which the Indonesian state is founded, calls for belief in God and respect for all religions, Sukarno cut short his address so that Moslems present could attend evening prayer. Said he: "I say salaam aleikum (peace be with you). I close with merdeka, merdeka and once more merdeka...
...Western observers, who feared to see Indonesia's Sukarno sucked into the Soviet propaganda stream, it was a somewhat reassuring suggestion that, though a brother, he was not a comrade...