MALAYSIA POSIES FOR BRICKBATS 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 INSTEAD OF BRICKBATS . THE INFORMAL CONFERENCE WAS SUGGESTED BY 
SUKARNO, WHO WAS RECLINING IN JAPAN ON THE FIRST LEG OF 
A ROUND-THEWORLD HOLIDAY . THOUGH THE INVITATION WAS SOMEWHAT STARTLING, ABDUL 
RAHMAN RESPONDED QUICKLY, FLEW OFF TO TOKYO FOR TWO LENGTHY CLOSED-DOOR 
SESSIONS WITH HIS OLD ADVERSARY . BEFORE LONG, THEY WERE LAUGHING 
AND JOKING LOUDLY . BETWEEN CHUCKLES, THEY AGREED TO A " 
CEASE-FIRE " THAT WOULD END " ACRIMONIOUS ATTACKS AND DISPARAGING REFERENCES 
" AGAINST EACH OTHER . PROMISING TO SETTLE OUTSTANDING PROBLEMS IN 
" A SPIRIT OF NEIGHBORLINESS, " THE TWO LEADERS SCHEDULED A 
FOREIGN MINISTERS' CONFERENCE THIS WEEK AMONG THEIR TWO NATIONS AND THE 
PHILIPPINES (WHICH ALSO HAS MILD OBJECTIONS TO THE MALAYSIA IDEA) . 
WHILE EXPRESSING INTEREST IN ANY EVENTUAL " SUMMIT CONFERENCE " THAT 
MIGHT RESULT WITH SUKARNO AND PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT DIOSDADO MACAPAGAL, ABDUL RAHMAN 
ADDED FIRMLY THAT THE FEDERATION WOULD COME INTO BEING AS SCHEDULED 
ON AUG . 31 . " MALAYSIA IS OUR DOMESTIC AFFAIR, 
" HE SAID . / IT IS NOT THE CONCERN OF 
ANYONE ELSE . / 