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...Tan Malaka was one of the founders of the Indonesian Communist Party, which is currently doing quite well for itself behind the scenes of the Indonesian Republican Government. But Tan Malaka had an ideological falling out with official Communism and became a Trotskyite. Tan Malaka also had a falling out with his great friend President Soekarno, who objected to a plot to kidnap Premier Sjahrir last year. Soekarno jailed Tan Malaka, and Comrade Alimin became Indonesia's No. 1 Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Open Question | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...traveler, recently returned from Indonesia, asked a member of the Republican Government: "When are you going to let Tan Malaka out of jail?" "I don't know," said the official. "You don't know?" asked the traveler. "Well," said the official, "it's hard to say. You see, he was thrown into Cheribon prison a year ago last July and I don't think he's been given anything to eat since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Open Question | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

...Fury (Hal Wallls; Paramount) is easy to take with tongue in cheek, impossible to take with a straight face. The story: Mary Astor, who runs a Western gambling joint, doesn't want her daughter, Lizabeth Scott, to take up with Gangster John Hodiak, who is acquiring a sun tan in the neighborhood. Burt Lancaster, a state trooper, loves her, and that ought to be enough for any girl. But there is no holding Lizabeth from love's false course until, in a frenzy of fisticuffs and old-fashioned auto-chasing, she realizes that Hodiak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

...National Chairman William Z. Foster and two party henchmen were spotted emerging from a West 56th Street residence. They had been visiting apartment 5-A, Woltman said. They drove off in a black Oldsmobile (New York license 7-Y-804). At 3:55 p.m., Bridges came out, wearing a tan windbreaker, and ducked into a taxi. A World-Telly reporter stopped him long enough to ask Bridges whether he had enjoyed his conference with Communist Foster. Bridges looked surprised, snapped "You're crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Two Plus Two Equals Red | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...asked, "How are the Pittsburgh Pirates doing?" What made the question a little surprising was that this Pirate fan -six feet tall, handsome and ebony black -wore a long white velvet gown which, when it flapped, revealed a startling blue-and-white-checked undergarment and a pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: These Are the Times ... | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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