SUKARNO’S POLICY
‘Seeking A Way Out’
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Dec. 21.
President Sukarno is seeking a way out of the Malaysia dispute, according to Asian diplomatic sources in Hong Kong, the “Sunday Times” correspondent, Richard Hughes, said yesterday. The sources said the President had sent urgent pleas to the United States and other powers for help in securing an Afro-Asian settlement of his doomed “confrontation” of Malaysia. Hughes said President Sukarno’s policy had been both a military and diplomatic disaster.
Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco had joined Egypt in recognition of Malaysia and the handpicked Indonesian invaders of Malaysia were surrendering without a fight. For the ailing Sukarno, 1964 had been “a year of military defeat, economic disaster, diplomatic humiliation and personal suffering.” Whatever Sukarno’s prospects for recovery from his illness, his island empire was collapsing in bankruptcy. Exports were declining and development plans were backfiring.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30630, 22 December 1964, Page 24
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