The Eastern Economist December 12 1952

15 crores or so on the steel plant (or half of the sum to be invested on it during the period of the Plan) the loans from the World Bank to the steel companies and the foreign investment portion of the oil refinery units will account for the major part of this amount. [...] The leadeship of the first coup which was staged in the fifth division in East Java on October 17 and of the latest coup of November 15 in the seventh division in Macasar demonstrates that the cleavage between the new entrants in the armed forces after independence and the old professionals who have imbibed traditions for service under the Dutch regime is sharp. [...] They have pressed the counter-demand for revision of the army's leadership at the top level which in effect means a demand for the curtailment of the power and influence of the professionals. [...] AIR-DROPPED SUPPLIES IN MALAYA In the four years of the campaign against the terrrists in the Federation of Malaya the amount of suplies dropped by parachute by squgdrons of the Far East Transport Wing of the R.A. [...] Renne head of the Mutual Security Agency's Technical Mission in the Philippines about the desirability of keeping poltics out of the administration of the aid progranime has been received in the spirit in which it has been given and the Philippines House of Representatives has directed an enquiry to be held in the whole question.