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RANEE OF SARAWAK New York City > TIME'S apologies to Sarawak's Ranee for attributing to her the authorship of H.H. the Dayang Muda's innocuous Relations and Complications...
...Sultan had many wives but no son. His adopted daughter, dumpy, 40-year-old Princess Dayang Dayang Piandao tried to seize the throne for herself or her husband (TIME, June 29). As a suffraget and a good friend of matronly Aurora Aragon Quezon, wife of the Commonwealth President she had the support of the Philippine Government which wants to bring the Moros under its thumb...
...elected his brother Rajah Muda Mawalil Wasit Kiram to the throne. But that did not settle the matter. The Philippine Government refused to recognize him, thereby saving itself a pension. The North Borneo Company withheld its land rent until the succession should be clarified. A Filipino judge appointed Dayang Dayang administrator of the dead Sultan's estate. Afraid of being poisoned or having his throat cut to make way for Dayang Dayang, Sultan Wasit retired to his ramshackle palace at Maimbung behind a heavy guard. It was well he did so for several armed thugs broke in one night...
Fortnight ago Dayang Dayang returned from a visit to Manila and Sultan Wasit went to see her. Then he went home and a few days later suddenly, like his brother before him, was called to Paradise. A "doctor" said he died of heart disease, but speculation was rife as to the cause of his opportune death. Opportune it was for Princess Dayang Dayang because Sultan Wasit, like Edward VIII, had not yet been crowned, and not having been crowned, his son, Ismale, had neither the formal title of crown prince nor a clear right of succession. Thus Dayang Dayang...
Peace in the Archipelago hung in the balance. Sultan Wasit was popular with the great majority of his people. If they once come to believe that Dayang Dayang or her Filipino friends conspired to poison him, Moros from Borneo, Celebes and Java can be expected to come to the aid of their brothers in the Sulu Archipelago. Then the day of the Moros' inevitable revolt against the masters they despise will be at hand, a struggle which the Moros, outnumbered and unarmed, cannot win, but in which they as born fighting men will doubtless take heavy toll of cocky...