For a government that had to fight down a Communist insurrection only three years ago, Indonesia seemed unduly complacent about the Reds in its midst, growing strong again. But the inexperienced Indonesians had their eye too much on their late masters, the Dutch, to suspect the greater, and closer, danger.
One of the leading agitators of the 1948 Communist revolt was an unsavory little Chinese gambler named Wang Jen-shu, then 39, author of a pamphlet titled "How to Overthrow the Present Government and Achieve a Communist State." Last year, Wang came back to Indonesia as Red Chinese ambassador. He set...
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