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Malaya seemed to have gone berserk. Arson had become commonplace. Workers battled police with spears and picks. Posters cried: "Destroy those who work for other races." Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner of the Malay Federation, proclaimed a state of emergency, granted extraordinary powers to the police...
...Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Malay, Korean, Thai, Turkish, Hindustani, German, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Russian, Hungarian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian...
...honor) with Cape Town's Mayor Abe Bloomberg. On the following day the entire family watched a stately quadrille at a huge ball given by the "colored community" in the City Hall. For once royal fashions played second fiddle to a dazzling array of East Indian and Malay costumes as 4,000 variously hued clerks, teachers, merchants and housemaids put on a pageant of native dances, bridal ceremonies, songs and a full-fledged oldtime Malay picnic for the sovereigns...
...around him would make an attempt difficult. Few men in the postwar world evoke the fanatic devotion of millions as does this 45-year-old child of luck and revolution. He is tall for an Indonesian (5 ft. 8 in.) and, by native standards, superlatively handsome. His Malay is self-consciously choice; in fact, he is so insistent on advancing the native speech that he is called Indonesia's Webster (meaning Noah, not Daniel). He is quite an orator, too-TIME'S Sherrod cabled the following picture of Soekarno addressing an audience of 5,,000 women...
...huts, and six or seven coconut trees . . . and there was one house, a little larger where the [prime minister] lived." It seems to have occurred to no one but the sharp-eyed Raffles that by establishing a "free city" on this spot, Britain might drain the trade of the Malay peninsula and establish her naval power athwart the route to China...