Word: sarawak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daring British privateer named Brooke forced the Sultan of Brunei to make him Raja of the vast East Indian district called Sarawak. Today his descendant is swank, hard Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, who as The White Raja of Sarawak rules 500,000 natives from his palace at Kuching (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934). Romantic Sarawak is "independent under the protection of the British Crown." Last month in Sarawak a cable from the Raja's 22-year-old Daughter Eliza asked if she could marry London's loudest-blowing hot jazz conductor, Harry...
...bridegroom's mother, Mrs. Solomon Litman, sat tearfully in a corner, nudged by her young son Syd who cried: "Momma, look!" when Her Highness the Ranee of Sarawak arrived with the bride's sister Leonora ("Princess Gold"). Countess of Inchcape and the bride's grandmother, Lady Esher...
...restricting not actual production but exports. The 1934 limit is set at 1,019,000 tons but under the guidance of an international committee the limit will rise about 25% by 1938. First year quotas (in tons): Malaya-504,000; Dutch East Indies-352,000; Ceylon-77,000; Sarawak-24,000; Siam-15,000; North Borneo-12,000; India-6,850; Burma-5,150. New planting is practically banned; replanting is held down to 20% of existing area; export of seed to potential rubber regions is forbidden...
...than 100 years ago Jamie Brooke of Coombe Grove, England sailed off to work for the East India Co. When his wealthy father died Jamie bought what he called a yacht, stocked it with arms and set off pirateering for Borneo. Since he ended up as the Rajah of Sarawak in Borneo and was knighted by Queen Victoria there is nothing shameful in the story of Little Boy Brooke except court evidence which convinced almost every one except his British judges that he had practiced ruthless extortion on the natives of Sarawak after obtaining it from the Sultan of Borneo...
...stranger. His Highness the London-born white Rajah of Sarawak was received by the admirals aboard the Kent with royal honors. He obviously wanted to chat about what would happen should Japan try to seize the predominantly Dutch Island of Borneo which also contains the territories of British North Borneo and Sarawak. To Japanese the status of Sarawak might be hard to explain. They might consider it fair game since Sarawak is officially "an independent State," might not attach sufficient importance to the fact that Sarawak is also officially "under the protection of Great Britain." This tie is not weakened...