Word: wilopo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strange, remote country, a cabinet falls. The name of the departing Premier is Wilopo. Who ever heard of him before? Yet the country in question owes its existence largely to the U.S., and the issue which brought in Premier Wilopo last year was a sporing of that Communist-cultured world growth: anti-Americanism...
...cabinet was formed by the Nationalist Party's Dr. Wilopo. No Communist, Wilopo promised to stop the drift to the West, and prepared the way for the country's first general election. In the prevailing climate of anti-Western opinion, the Communists drew the left wing of Wilopo's party into a "National Front" coalition. Directed by Moscow-trained Communist Alimin Prawirodirdjo, financed by Peking, the National Front began attacking the government, brought the country to the brink of civil war last October on the issue of military leadership. Only by yielding leadership of the army...
...tangled with Chinese peasant immigrants illegally squatting in North Sumatra. Six Chinese were killed. Red China's consul was on the spot within the hour. His protest led to a National Front vote of condemnation in the Indonesian Parliament last week. With half his party openly against him, Wilopo quit. Probable next step: a government which will include Communists...
| 1 |