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...northwest coast of Borneo, and its money-about $25 million a year-comes mostly from oil. Last summer Omar Ali Saifuddin decreed an ambitious welfare program costing $33 million (TIME, Aug. 31). But there was still a surplus. So the young Sultan cast a philanthropic eye on Malaya, a neighboring, blood-related British protectorate, which was bravely mopping up Communist guerrillas and was hard up for money owing to falling tin and rubber prices...
Last week Sultan Omar offered to lend the Malay Federation government a sum of about $14 million, as a gesture of friendship to a country which, he said, was "fighting our war against Communism as well as theirs." Said a prominent citizen of Kuala Lumpur, Malaya's capital: "A ray of sunshine out of an overcast sky." Unfortunately, Omar's generous loan will not come near covering Malaya's 1954 deficit, now estimated at more than $50 million...
Died. Air Chief Marshal Sir Henry Robert Moore Brooke-Popham, 75, one of Britain's pioneer airmen, who led the disastrous 1941 defense of Malaya and Singapore against the Japanese in World War II; in Halton, England...
...Boat, it was every man for himself in one of the less altruistic episodes in the annals of the sea. Author Gibson's gory little memoir, a classic of its kind, begins when the Dutch steamer Rooseboom, carrying more than 500 evacuees from Malaya, was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean, halfway to Ceylon. Gibson was one of 135 survivors who swam to the only lifeboat left afloat, one designed to hold 28 (80 got aboard). Like many of the others, Gibson was wounded: his collarbone was fractured and a shell fragment had lodged in his leg. On the first...
...Bunter soon became a household word, and the entire British Empire seemed to take Greyfriars to its heart. It was a quiet, stiff-upper-lip sort of world where sex and politics were never mentioned, and no gentleman ever thought of tattling on another. Missionaries read about it in Malaya; traders took the Magnet along to Australia; soldiers snatched it up in their canteens in India. Eventually the time came when Charles Hamilton was forced to declare that Frank Richards had become a "public character." He wrote Richards' autobiography, even started a new school series with a younger Richards...