Word: sarawak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jamie Brooke was a rich young Briton who bought a ship, stocked it with arms, and sailed for the East Indies as a privateer. One hundred years ago he set himself up as the white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found evidence that Jamie Brooke had got his principality by violence and trickery, and that he thereafter practiced ruthless extortion on the natives. But he was acquitted, was knighted by Queen Victoria...
...Sarawak's present Raja is 66-year-old Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, grandnephew of Sir James. A suave, hard, efficient potentate, he has ruled his 500,000 brown-skinned subjects with an iron hand for 24 years. But last week word reached Britain that on the centenary of Brooke rule in Sarawak last month Sir Charles had set up a constitutional monarchy...
...Charles chose to abandon some of his autocratic power might have remained a mystery if Sir Charles's family troubles were not so well known. It takes a strong hand to govern Sarawak's tough, native populace and, like many a European dynasty, the Brookes have waxed no stronger as their line grew old. Sir Charles sired three daughters, no son to follow him as Sarawak's Tuan Muda (Crown Prince...
...these complications undermined the Raja's prestige in Sarawak. Two years ago Sir Charles, looking about for a suitable heir to the throne, decided his brother, Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (now 64), was too old. Besides, Bertram's wife had also got her name in the papers by embracing Mohammedanism after being successively a Protestant, Christian Scientist, Roman Catholic. So Sir Charles appointed Bertram's son, Antoni Walter Dayrell Brooke, to be Sarawak's Tuan Muda. Then he sailed for England...
...Wife of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke. "White Raja" of Sarawak, Her Highness the Ranee last July criticized British handling of refugee children, praised U.S. and Canadian generosity. TIME's reference was based on remarks widely but evidently mistakenly attributed to her by the Canadian press. To the humanitarian Rance TIME's apologies for the mistake...