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From northern Sumatra to the Moluccas, apprehensive Dutch nationals (there are 46,000 of them throughout the islands) took refuge in their homes as Indonesian workers swarmed through the streets, forcibly took over Dutch commercial installations. The Netherlands was summarily ordered to close every consulate in the republic except for Djakarta's. Dutch nationals were told they would be expelled from the country immediately. The expulsion order, said Justice Minister Gustaaf Adolf Maengkom, meant "within three days, if I have my way. But that is impossible...
Though Indonesian Premier Djuanda threatened "drastic action" against unauthorized seizures of Dutch property, SOBSI-led workers seized a Dutch club in Palembang, largest city of south Sumatra, two banks in Semarang in central Java, tea, coffee, rubber and palm-oil plantations in northern Sumatra and west Java...
Amsterdam newspapers were clogged with queries about reports that the island of Sumatra had declared its independence and that fighting had started in Jakarta's streets...
...Sukarno Must Go." The cost of living in Indonesia has shot up 36% in the past six months, 96% since 1953. Cotton textiles are up 40%, the price of rice higher than it has been at any time in 30 years. From Sumatra to Amboina, dissatisfied military leaders stirred in near rebellion. Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, onetime Sukarno favorite who now leads dissident forces in East Indonesia (Celebes, Lesser Sundas and Moluccas), says 'flatly: "Sukarno must go." From Sumatra last week came word of a Communist-inspired attack on Indonesian regular army units stationed in the town of Siantar...
From his high-laced shoes (specially built up for his World War I injuries) and long wool underwear bulging beneath his socks to the paper holders into which he jams his long Sumatra or Brazil cigar, Ludwig Erhard has remained true to his staid Franconian upbringing. Though he now wears glossily tailored blue suits, their lapels are usually sprinkled with ashes. His youngest daughter is married to a Daimler-Benz executive. The son-in-law used to work for the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg, but Erhard nagged .so persistently that a young...