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...British Empire, oil-rich, rubber-rich Sarawak is an in dependent patch on the northwest rim of Dutch Borneo. Britain's control stops at defense and foreign affairs. For a century Sarawak was the absolute domain of the Brooke dynasty, founded in 1841, when a swashbuckling English adventurer, James Brooke, quelled an insurrection there for the Sultan of Brunei and proclaimed himself Raja...
Close, But . . . The war which struck the U.S. at Pearl Harbor late in 1941 lapped perilously close to Buckner's domain in the following six months. In early June 1942, when the Japanese seized Kiska and Attu, enemy carrier-based planes attacked Dutch Harbor and troop transports bore down on the base. They turned away when land-based aircraft from Buckner's hastily constructed airfields struck at them...
Even with the woman he loved, the onetime King-Emperor who had ruled over a domain on which the sun never sets could not be very happy ruling 29 islets, 661 cays and 2,387 sandspits. In public, however, he was always correct. Only in private did he say "This Elba!" and she echo "This St. Helena...
...also fond of automobiles, telephones and radios, all of which he has put to good use in unifying the scattered tribes in the wastes of his domain. When Ibn Saud introduced the telephone, some of Saudi Arabia's more fanatical isolationists cried that it was a work of the devil. Replied Ibn Saud: "Of a certainty if it is the work of the devil, the holy words of the Koran will not pass over it." Holy words passed over the new line in Riyadh to Mecca; the objectors subsided. The money for these innovations comes largely from two sources...
...tide of war surged back across the Pacific and the Navy's theater overlapped into MacArthur's domain, there came the inevitable discovery: MacArthur and the Navy (as wags liked to put it) were really allies. "Bull" Halsey met MacArthur; they found there was no reason for friction - at least, not any more. Chester Nimitz flew down to New Guinea; he and MacArthur conferred. While the Navy struck across the Pacific, through the Gilberts and Marshalls, past Truk and into the Marianas and western Carolines, MacArthur's men got stout naval support...