Word: macmichael
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...submit everything," he says, "but God help you if you don't." He knows that the Post will face a heavier responsibility as the British pull out. The best tribute the Post has had came from the British High Commissioner on its tenth birthday. Sir Harold MacMichael congratulated the paper for "stating facts fairly, respecting confidences and avoiding equally sensationalism, snobbery and cheap insinuation...
...plan to unify Britain's nine Malay States and the Straits Settlements (excluding Singapore) into a single Malay federation was worked out long ago, "in the Coalition days. An ardent Tory, Sir Harold MacMichael, went out to Malaya last October to explain the plan to the nine Sultans. The Sultans themselves promptly consented to sign away all their sovereign powers (except their religious authority). Then they got to thinking it over...
Gangs of Jewish gunmen, often disguised in British battle dress, blew up police stations, shot at policemen, had even tried (unsuccessfully) to assassinate Lord Gort's predecessor, High Commissioner Sir Harold MacMichael. The Arabs looked on with the aloofness of camels...
Last week came Britain's answer: No, until after the war, when the mandating power, the League of Nations or its successor, could give consent. Trans-Jordan's Cabinet resigned in a huff, but a friendly talk between the Emir and Sir Harold MacMichael, British High Commissioner of Palestine, patched up the unpleasantness...
...HUGH R. MACMICHAEL...