Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno professes to have no fear of Communists. This feeling stems from the premature 1948 Communist rebellion, which Soekarno's troops handily broke. Two years ago, thinking it a harmless sop to the political left, Soekarno picked an acknowledged Marxist named Iwa Kusuma-sumantri as his Defense Minister.
Kusumasumantri taught history in Moscow during the 1920s, and his family still lives there. Once exiled from Indonesia by the Dutch for Communist agitation, he was implicated in 1946 in a Red-led plot against Soekarno's young independent government. As Defense Minister, he has been busily spotting his own men in key army...
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