印度尼西亚：可能的梦想
作者：霍华德-帕尔弗雷-琼斯 ‧ 发行日期：1971年4月21日
INDONESIA: THE POSSIBLE DREAM
BY HOWARD PALFREY JONES ‧ RELEASE DATE: APRIL 21, 1971
琼斯描述了他在1958年至1965年期间作为美国驻印度尼西亚大使的紧迫而极其重要的任务；他在苏加诺被赶下台前的5月离开。在关系日益紧张的时期，他从苏加诺那里赢得了大量的信任和合作，尽管华盛顿的愚蠢程度令人难以置信。国务院将苏门答腊人对中央政府的权术叛乱视为共产党的影响问题，而琼斯不知道中央情报局正在帮助叛乱分子；艾森豪威尔亲自侮辱了苏卡诺，而美国拒绝在荷兰和印度尼西亚关于西伊里安的争端中采取反殖民主义的立场，不必要地让美国人失分。人们注意到苏加诺对马来西亚和西伊里安等国际风波的大规模利用，并逐渐形成了一个事实上由军队管理的国家的形象，直到苏加诺在60年代初努力利用共产党作为制衡。琼斯是个老练的人，尤其是以艾森豪威尔政府的标准来看，但他从未透露过他是否认为共产党会因为他所描述的改革主义政策而减少危险；他喜欢提醒苏加诺注意马萨里克的命运。他深入研究了1965年右翼将军政变的复杂情况，但没有提供任何有关美国大使馆当时的活动和态度。该书的风格是外交部门的轻描淡写，并加入了关于 "繁华的、热气腾腾的 "雅加达的玉米和大量的历史背景介绍。作为一本外交回忆录，这本书虽然既不精彩，也没有令人眼花缭乱的坦诚，但却很吸引人；作为对苏加诺的特写，它比亚当斯的《苏加诺自传》要好。自传》。
INDONESIA: THE POSSIBLE DREAM
Jones describes his exigent, extremely important assignment as U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia from 1958 to 1965; he left in May before Sukarno was ousted. He had won a good deal of trust and cooperation from Sukarno, in a period of increasingly vexed relations, despite incredible stupidity in Washington. The State Department viewed the Sumatran power-play rebellion against the central government as a matter of Communist influence, while unbeknownst to Jones the CIA was helping the rebels; Eisenhower personally insulted Sukamo, and the U.S. refusal to take an anti-colonial stand on the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over West Irian unnecessarily lost points for the Americans. Sukarno's grand-scale exploitation of international tempests like Malaysia and West Irian is noted, and a picture gradually emerges of a country run de facto by the military until Sukarno's early-'60's effort to use the Communist Party as a counterweight. Sophisticated, especially by Eisenhower Administration standards, Jones nonetheless never lets on whether he considered the Communists any the less dangerous for the reformist policies he describes; he was fond of reminding Sukarno about the fate of Masaryk. He delves into the complex circumstances of the 1965 right-wing generals' coup without offering anything about the American embassy's activities and attitudes at the time. The style is Foreign Service understatement leavened with corn about ""teeming, steaming"" Djakarta and a big close of historical backgrounding. As a diplomatic memoir, the book is fascinating if neither brilliant nor dazzlingly candid; as a closeup of Sukarno it is superior to Adams' Sukarno: An Autobiography.
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