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...Sultan of Johore, bearing a personal grudge against the Jap invaders of his Malayan state-they had not only maltreated his subjects but had swiped five of his automobiles and one of his polo-field rollers-recalled one thoroughly satisfactory incident: Field Marshal Terauchi had made him a present of a loaf of bread, but the Sultan simply smelled it-in the Marshal's presence-and told a manservant to throw it away...
King of the Cocos. In London, the youngest, strangest royal D.P. of all packed his own bags. He was John Clunies-Ross V, 19, King of the Cocos Islands (TIME, June 11). Ross V has the lean, long countenance of his Scottish seafaring ancestors. His brother favors their Malayan grandmother (a royal Sulu princess in her own right). Their sister manages to look like both of them...
Ross IV was a strapping, handsome man with high cheekbones inherited from his Malayan mother (a royal Sulu princess). His chief relaxations from the cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...
Rubbermen do not believe that synthetic will entirely replace natural rubber-the postwar market will be big enough for both. At least two or three years, probably much longer, may be needed to get Malayan and East Indian plantations back into normal production. Then, even if crude is cheaper than synthetic-say as low as 10½ a pound as against the present Buna S minimum of 14?-competition will still be a minor point because of the potentially enormous demand...
...unless imports increase or consumption decreases, there is little chance of adding to present stocks. Before the war, practically all U.S. tin requirements were supplied by the Malayan and East Indies mines. At present the U.S. receives tin from the high-cost Bolivian mines at the annual rate of 18,000 tons; and from a comparatively new source, the Belgian Congo, at the annual rate of 12,000 tons. A little more than 20,000 tons comes from reclaiming operations. Imports from China, French West Africa, and Mexico, coming in driblets, might be increased in the future...