The Third World War

Few Americans have heard of Hasan Tiro, nor would they find it enlightening if he were described by his formal title: Ambassador-at-large of the Federation of Indonesia to North and South America and to the United Nations. (An ambassador visible to his presumptive hosts, of course: the Federation being an entity in no wise identical with Sukarno’s Republic of Indonesia, whose envoys are received by Washington and East River temple.)

Yet there is nothing musical comedy about Tiro’s job or title. In both private and public capacities he has some claim to our attention. Hasan Tiro is intelligent, well educated, well informed, and endowed with a dominant combination of charm and firmness. He is the authorized representative of the inhabitants of the Indonesian islands who have broken with Sukarno’s centralized Jakarta government, and have formed a federal government of their own.

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Few Americans have heard of Hasan Tiro, nor would they find it enlightening if he were described by his formal title: Ambassador-at-large of the Federation of Indonesia to North and South America and to the United Nations. (An ambassador visible to his presumptive hosts, of course: the Federation being an entity in no wise identical with Sukarno’s Republic of Indonesia, whose envoys are received by Washington and East River temple.)

Yet there is nothing musical comedy about Tiro’s job or title. In both private and public capacities he has some claim to our attention. Hasan Tiro is intelligent, well educated, well informed, and endowed with a dominant combination of charm and firmness. He is the authorized representative of the inhabitants of the Indonesian islands who have broken with Sukarno’s centralized Jakarta government, and have formed a federal government of their own.