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...hard look at Malaya, and said: "I could win this war in three months if I could get two-thirds of the people on my side." He had a directive read, promising that "Malaya should in due course become a fully self-governing nation . . . within the British Commonwealth." At Kuala Lumpur, Templer took over the hilltop King's House which is the traditional home of the High Commissioner. This was where he, his wife and two children (Jane, 18, and Miles, 6) would be spending many months. A practical soldier, he ordered barbed wire to be set up around...
...Duchess of Kent, 45, widowed aunt of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, left for a flying tour of Singapore and the Far East, accompanied by her 16-year-old son, the Duke of Kent. At Kuala Lumpur, Malaya, the duchess will lay the cornerstone of a tuberculosis sanatorium...
...heard from college professors who wanted it as a text in their classes, from high government officials, from religious organizations, and from hundreds of corporations, most of which distributed copies to their own employees or featured it in their company papers. And the chief engineer, Way & Works, Malayan Railway, Kuala Lumpur, who had read the article in TIME's Pacific Edition, asked for a list of books on the subject, which he wished to study "as intensively as possible" before embarking on a career as consultant to the managers of industrial firms in Australia...
...Chinese alike has made the struggle harder. Last June, the Selangor branch of St. George's Society, a British get-together club, sent out dinner invitations to the Sultan of Selangor and other Malayan dignitaries. The dinner was to take place at the exclusive Lake Club in Kuala Lumpur, but the club committee refused permission on the ground that a half-century-old custom prohibits Asian guests. The club's action enraged Britain's dynamic new High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, charged with conducting the war against the Reds. "Men who have come thousands of miles...
...Sungei Pelek. Here Templer hoped his new curfew-and-questionnaire technique would smoke out the whereabouts of 30-year-old Liew Kon Kim, a shrewd Communist leader known as "the bearded wonder." Templer imposed another curfew on 80 square miles of Communist-terrorized rubber estates and tin mines between Kuala Lumpur and Pahang state...