Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These words were almost a century old last week, and almost a hundred times as ironic as their author, Sir James Brooke, the first swashbuckling white Raja of Sarawak in Borneo, thought they ever would be. For last week evildoers with scant respect for the English union jack descended on his Sarawak...
...Japanese landed in Sarawak, on the wild and oily island of Borneo. So far this was only a holding attack on Singapore's flank; it might eventually develop into a quest for oil, but the British reported that they had already destroyed the wells in the region threatened by the Japanese...
...mainland. In snatching Davao they were also going after a base, 1,600 miles from Singapore, that could be another link in a chain around the Philippines, through the Mandated Islands, from Tokyo to Singapore. If the Japanese could grab it, while they also set themselves up in North Borneo, they would have a fairly well-protected detour around the submarine-guarded narrows in the South China...
...North Borneo was reported attacked by landing parties...
...Ranee of Sarawak, en route to London from Borneo, sounded off to Manhattan reporters on titled visitors, declared: "They're making enemies. . . . What have we got to be snobbish about? The English aristocracy is down and out. . . . Your moneyed crowd kowtow to anybody with a handle to his name. These smarties don't like me. They like my title...