Word: sukarnoism
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...throw bricks at property or people. Do not cause damage," lectured Indonesia's President Sukarno to a group of university students. It seemed a strange note to strike, in view of the fact that four times in the past three months Sukarno had permitted Indonesian mobs to storm USIS offices in Djakarta, Surabaya and Medan, smashing windows, ripping down American flags, burning thousands of books...
Indonesia's Sukarno likes to observe the forms of international law the better to violate them. Since expropriation of foreign property is very bad form indeed, Sukarno has worked out his own method of laying hands on other people's valuable plant and equipment...
First the Communist workers in foreign-owned plants rally and riot, demanding that the management be thrown out and the factory given to the workers. Then Sukarno steps in to take over the management on behalf of the Indonesian government to "protect" the plants and estates from the angry workers. Formal nationalization is apt to follow. The Dutch, Belgians and British have all been victims of the Sukarno Method in recent years...
Last week it was the Americans' turn: Indonesia announced it was taking over the management of the $80 million rubber plantations in North Sumatra owned by the U.S. Rubber Co. and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Sukarno's spokesman insisted that U.S. ownership rights would of course continue to be "recognized." Of course...
...added up to a new Peking-Djakarta axis that raises some disturbing problems for both East and West. The Russians have invested $1 billion in arms and aid to Indonesia, only to find Sukarno plunging into the Peking camp. And thoughtful U.N. diplomats wonder if such anti-Western nations as Cambodia, Mali and perhaps half a dozen others might not be tempted in time by Peking's U.N., if in fact it ever gets off the ground...