INDONESIA: Double Trouble

Indonesia last week had two Presidents. One was Parliament Speaker Sartono, who was sworn in as Acting President before a heavily guarded convocation of Djakarta dignitaries, and the other was President Sukarno himself, who kept saying he was going off to India for a rest cure, though he seemed more interested in hanging around to see how the Acting President would make out.

Acting President Sartono had his work cut out for him. In the three weeks since Sukarno launched his campaign to seize Dutch-owned commercial enterprises and expel their owners, Indonesia's ever-shaky...

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