No two leaders were ever less likely to be chummy than Indonesia's President Sukarno and Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman.
Over the past few months, Sukarno has desperately tried to block the formation of the Tunku's Malaysian Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, which would successfully contain his expansionist ambitions. Indonesia has threatened Malaya with force, ranted that the Tunku was "round the bend." But at a surprise meeting in Tokyo last week, Sukarno and Abdul Rahman embraced each other as if they had been exchanging posies...
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