Word: borneo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jamie Brooke had been wounded in a battle in the Brahmaputra valley, mutilated and doomed to a childless future. Unable to marry, he took to the sea, which he said "wants nothing but a gallant heart from her lover." He put into Blidah Fort, Borneo, helped suppress a rebellion against a Malay prince, wound up by becoming absolute monarch of 50,000 square miles of viciously virginal jungle in northwest Borneo...
...heroes-winners of the D.S.O.-were appointed to Church of England bishoprics. One of them, the new Lord Bishop of Newcastle, the Rt. Rev. Noel Baring Hudson, was a temporary brigadier general at 23-the youngest in the war. Later he was ordained, served as missionary bishop in Borneo...
...Dutch, though now armed, could not defend New Guinea or Celebes; the Japanese might also take some smaller island such as Bali with its classically breasted maidens. But the three key islands, Borneo, Sumatra and Java, were tough porcupines to grab. Granted Japan's estimated 2,000,000 tons of available shipping could transport between 100,000 and 200,000 men, with their equipment, across 2.800 miles of the China Sea, a landing on Borneo might be successful. But the oil wells of Borneo were prepared for instant destruction, and the Dutch have sworn to destroy them if need...
...Japan's most obvious lack. She produces only 10% of her peacetime needs. She depends for the rest on the U.S., the Netherlands East Indies, British Borneo, Latin America. Under the State Department policy designed to keep Japan from moving into the East Indies, the U.S. sent Japan 16,086,000 bbl. of petroleum and petroleum products in 1939, 11,529,000 bbl. last year, about 1,150,000 bbl. a month this year. Until this week, Japan also got 1,800,000 tons (around 14,000,000 bbl.) a year from the East Indies under a contract with...
Jamie Brooke was a rich young Briton who bought a ship, stocked it with arms, and sailed for the East Indies as a privateer. One hundred years ago he set himself up as the white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found evidence that Jamie Brooke had got his principality by violence and trickery, and that he thereafter practiced ruthless extortion on the natives. But he was acquitted, was knighted by Queen Victoria...