Word: sukarnoism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this year's foreign visitors to Washington have left behind so many favorable impressions as Indonesia's President Sukarno (TIME, May 28). On the next leg of his world tour, Sukarno turned his steps toward Moscow. Said Sukarno, no Red but Asia's top neutralist after Nehru: "I am not going to the Communist countries to seek a state of mind. I already know the Marxist state of mind. I am going to see whether or not they have carried out their ideals...
From Leningrad to Baku, the Russians rolled out their flossiest Red carpets last week and strove to outdo the welcome extended to Sukarno by the U.S. Jet fighters escorted Sukarno's plane. Guards of honor and equally well-drilled cheering multitudes greeted him at airports with bunting and banners. At a meeting of Leningrad engineering workers, who offered to help industrialize Indonesia, Sukarno, himself an engineer (Bandung Technical Institute), let his emotion overflow: "My heart brims with love and gratitude. I beg you not to address me as . . . Your Excellency. I beg you to call me Bung Karno [Brother...
Comparing the Bolshevik Revolution with his countrymen's own 1949 revolt against the Dutch, Sukarno plugged for Soviet support in his aim to add West New Guinea to his fledgling republic. "In Indonesia," he told the engineers, "the revolutionaries . . . greet each other with the cry of merdeka, which means freedom . . . I ask you now to join me in exclaiming merdeka five times." Dutifully the freedomless Russians roared the strange new word. And from then on it was the vociferous cheer of welcome for the sprightly visitor from southern Asia...
While back in Indonesia, President Sukarno was crying (in English) "Hands off Egypt!" at a Djakarta mass meeting, one of his delegates was saying privately in London: "We young nations need the tools of industrialization that come to us through the canal−and we cannot afford, as you can, to have them go round the longer and more expensive way. This is what we are telling Nasser." France's Foreign Minister Pineau made the same point to the conference, in a shrewd effort to divert the issue from Nasser's cry of colonialism...
After the speech was finished, Sukarno followed up his pointed innuendoes with an equally pointed gesture. When it came time to leave, he strolled off with his arm about Hugh Gumming. (Also present but unembraced: Soviet Ambassador to Indonesia Dmitry Zhukov.) Clearly, Neutralist Sukarno's U.S. tour had been rewarding-not only for him but for the U.S. as well...