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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kassem's public utterances, at first so mild, impersonal and idealistic through the bitter slanging match that raged between Iraq and Nasser's United Arab Republic, have suddenly taken on a high emotional tone. To visitors at Baghdad's As-Salaam Hospital, he declared last week that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Shattered Mask | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Reviving the old Hashemite dream of a "Fertile Crescent" extending from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf, he trumpeted that neighboring Syria is "inseparable from the Iraqi people." and that Jordan "is still tied to the chariot of imperialism and when she wishes to recover her freedom we will be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAQ: The Shattered Mask | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Long before Portuguese sailors discovered Indonesia in the 16th century, Chinese traders were carrying cloves and nutmeg from the green islands to the Chinese mainland. By the time the first Dutch colonists arrived, the Chinese had built small sugar mills and had the rudimentary commerce of the archipelago well in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Seeing Red | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Today, the 2,500,000 Chinese who make up 3% of Indonesia's population are a prosperous minority, irksome to Indonesia's nationalists and as politically aloof as ever. In the euphoric aftermath of the 1955 Bandung Conference, Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai negotiated with Indonesia a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Seeing Red | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Who's a Spy? All this was a far cry from the days when Indonesia was one of the first countries in the world to recognize Red China. By last week the Times of Indonesia was demanding the expulsion of Red China's Ambassador Huang Chen. Radio Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Seeing Red | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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