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...trackless mountain jungles of Pahang, largest and wildest of the Malaya states, are the special preserve of Sir Abu Bakar Riayatudin Almuadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah, one of the largest and mildest of Sultans. A robust, paternal, fun-loving man who deplores violence and loves to dance and sing with his people, the Sultan of Pahang was shocked and hurt by the support his people gave the Communists when the Reds began guerrilla warfare in Malaya after World...
...coalition demanded the nationalization of all tea and rubber plantations still in British hands, and the ejection of British forces from the new Commonwealth nation of Ceylon. (The naval base at Trincomalee and the air base at Negombo are the last remaining British bases between the Middle East and Malaya...
Touring Asia on mostly serious business, Britain's former Laborite Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, 68, took a breather in Malaya, was snared in a Kuala Lumpur nightspot by a nifty, wild-hipped dancer billed as the Cuban H-Bomb. As flashbulbs popped, she bussed him moistly. Tourist-on-the-Loose Morrison, sheepish but happy, said: "I had no time to defend myself." Then he had a grim afterthought: "I hope this picture doesn't get back to England." Later, as most British newspaper readers chuckled over the picture, Morrison's stay-at-home wife Margaret gamely commented...
Early this month the government, with great fanfare, set up a flying column of 2,500 cold-war troopers supposedly in instant readiness to take off for any place-Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus. But according to Stokes, the government lacks the planes to move them...
...British laws of libel, learned that reflections upon the character and ability of a British official can be dangerous. The defamed Briton: Sir Reginald Hugh Dorman-Smith, Britain's onetime (1941-46) governor of Burma, whom Douglas accused of general bungling in office in his travelogue North from Malaya. In a court-approved settlement, Lawyer Douglas and his British publisher last week offered "sincere apologies and regrets...