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Therapeutic Pen

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For the last seven years editorial cartoonist, Fritz Behrendt, has thrust repeatedly at world Communism with one of the sharpest and most therapeutic pens in all of Europe.

On Amsterdam’s ancient, influential, and conservative Algemeen Handelsblad (literally “general commercial newspaper”), the convictions of a stocky displaced German named Fritz Behrendt stick out like battle flags. To hear Behrendt tell it, the whole world is sick, and he is just the doctor it needs. “There are a lot of…

Tradition Unbound

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In Judo, The Netherlands’ hulking (6 ft. 5 in. 238 lbs.) Anton Geesink fought Japan’s smaller (6 ft. 1 in. 198 lbs.) Koji Sone, and won.

The two barefoot, kimono-clad contestants bowed, gripped sleeves, and stared at each other with furious concentration. The silent S.R.O. crowd in Paris’ Pierre de Coubertin Stadium strained to catch the first muscular move. With The Netherlands’ hulking (6 ft. 5 in. 238 lbs.) Anton Geesink fighting Japan’s smaller (6 ft….

Fight over the Papuans

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Foreign minister Luns proposed handing over New Guinea to the U.N., which could then allow the native Papuans to determine their own fate. Sukarno wants to liberate West Irian.

As India’s armed forces rolled into Goa last week, Indonesia’s jaunty President Sukarno tried to hitch a ride. Standing beneath a canopy in the cultural center of Djokjakarta, Sukarno told a wildly cheering crowd of 100,000 to prepare “for the coming general mobilization of all the Indonesian people soon to…

Bargain on Berlin?

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The Netherlands and Indonesia are not even on formal speaking terms, the struggle for New Guinea has fallen to diplomatic “third parties,” largely the U.S.

As usual, the headlines out of Berlin were dramatic—an American commandant held up at the East-West frontier; a Soviet jeep chased by U.S. troops in retaliation. General Lucius Clay, the President’s special representative in Berlin, flew to Washington to demand that the local commander get more freedom to slug…

Into Space

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Sukarno was 100 yards away when a grenade exploded near his stalled car and blamed the Dutch. The Dutch blamed U.S. diplomat Jones for shouting an Indonesian’s rebels’ word.

On a barnstorming tour of the boondocks aimed at whipping up enthusiasm for his threatened invasion of Nether lands New Guinea, Indonesia’s President Sukarno took along a star-studded cast: ten admiring foreign ambassadors, including the U.S.’s Howard Palfrey Jones, Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, a brigade of local beauties. As an…

Setback for Sukarno

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Three Indonesian torpedo boats raced at flank speed (40 knots) toward the Dutch New Guinea coast. The Dutch ships sank one of the Indonesian craft and forcing the others to flee.

One moonlit night last week, three blips flashed on the radar screen of a Dutch Neptune patrol bomber some 60 miles southwest of New Guinea. They turned out to be three Indonesian torpedo boats racing at flank speed (40 knots) toward the Dutch New Guinea coast. Just over two hours…

By Jingo

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Though Sukarno softened his repeated demand for immediate sovereignty over Netherlands New Guinea, Indonesia’s government acted as if the country were already at war.

We don’t want to fight, but by jingo, if we do, We’ve got the ships, we’ve got the men, we’ve got the money, too.*

Indonesia’s President Sukarno, who sorely lacks troopships, trained soldiers and hard cash for his threatened invasion of Netherlands New Guinea, is banking on jingo power to…

How to Offend Everybody

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The U.S., a nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody.

The U.S., a nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over Netherlands New Guinea, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody.

The U.S. troubles began with a quiet Dutch trooplift to West New Guinea aboard KLM commercial flights. As long as the…

Two-Way Street

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U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy was in Indonesia persuading them to settle peacefully its bitter dispute with The Netherlands about sovereignty over West New Guinea.

Planning their itineraries for world tours, U.S. officials are fond of omitting Indonesia, the touchy, swarming island nation whose government professes neutralism while practicing anti-Americanism.

To this rule, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy was no exception— and last week he and his wife Ethel flew into Indonesia only at the…

On the Ladder to Heaven

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A World War II candidate who might be named saint by the Catholic Church was Father Titus Brandsma, died in a Dachau chamber, refusing to retract his anti-Nazi views.

In the Roman Catholic Church, saints are made, not born. Since 1588, when Rome first established strict procedures for canonization, the Congregation of Rites has declared that 211 men and women are, as far as man knows, in the company of God in heaven. Only one is an American, Mother…

Pacific Snowball

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Just as Indonesia and The Netherlands got to the conference table for negotiation of their dispute over Dutch New Guinea, warfare flared again along the coast of the island.

ust as Indonesia and The Netherlands got to the conference table for some quiet negotiation of their dispute over Dutch New Guinea, warfare flared again along the coast of the humid Pacific island.

Dutch marines discovered a band of 30 In donesians on Waigeo Island off New Guin ea’s western…

Dutch Squeeze

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Indonesian guerrillas crept through the dense jungles of Dutch New Guinea last week, forcing the Dutch to spread out their meager defenses (5,800 combat troops).

Indonesian guerrillas crept through the dense jungles of Dutch New Guinea last week, and it became clear that Indonesia’s President Sukarno was at last going to do more than talk about grabbing the disputed territory that he calls West Irian. He also adroitly deployed psychological warfare: Indonesia broadcast reports of …

Hiep, Hiep, Hoera!

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Queen Juliana’s celebrated her 53rd birthday and 25th wedding anniversary, five other reigning monarchs and a pride of princes were also present.

Amsterdam last week was decorated with a million tulips, a billion gaily colored lights, and the most lavish array of royalty that Europe has seen since the coronation of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. To celebrate Queen Juliana’s 53rd birthday and 25th wedding anniversary, five other reigning monarchs and…

Attempt No. 5

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A murder attempt on Sukarno was organized by the fanatically anti-Sukarno Darul Islam sect. Sukarno blamed the Dutch.

Like Gilbert & Sullivan’s John Wellington (The Sorcerer) Wells, Indonesia’s President Sukarno is a believer In magic and spells, In blessings and curses And ever-filled purses, In prophecies, witches, and knells.

At a Djakarta diplomatic reception last year, Bung Karno (meaning Brother Karno) showed up in a beautifully tailored white…

Haven on Straight Street

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This week, Rev. Herman Hegger will open Europe’s first organized haven for ex-priests, because says he: “A priest who wants to break with the Roman Catholic Church is helpless.”

“A priest who wants to break with the Roman Catholic Church is helpless,” says the Rev. Herman Johannes Hegger, 46, a minister in the Calvinist Church of The Netherlands. “He needs somebody, just for the simple things in life, because he is actually left on the street without a penny…

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