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Over the past few months, Sukarno has desperately tried to block the formation of the Tunku's Malaysian Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, which would successfully contain his expansionist ambitions. Indonesia has threatened Malaya with force, ranted that the Tunku was "round the bend." But at a surprise meeting in Tokyo last week, Sukarno and Abdul Rahman embraced each other as if they had been exchanging posies instead of brickbats...
...Brookes of Sarawak might have stepped from the pages of a Conrad novel. The first and last English family to occupy an Oriental throne, they fought pirates and hostile sultans, pacified headhunters and brought the white man's law to their cruel, vibrantly beautiful land in northwest Borneo. The Brooke rajahs ruled their Kentucky-size kingdom with the stern dignity of a Victorian paterfamilias, but with humanity and imagination as well; in the annals of colonialism, few dynasties have been so selflessly devoted to their subject's welfare. The first Brooke rajah was James, a wealthy, high-minded...
...would find "new hope in an era of widening enlightenment, stability and social progress." Another Chance. When Sir Charles retired to London, with a $2.8 million trust fund that will ultimately revert to Sarawak, the natives fought bitterly against British rule, even killed the second governor, who occupied the Brookes' old palace. The country has never recovered from the loss of its leader. When the Malaysian Federation (TIME Cover, April 12) comes into existence in August, strife-torn Sarawak will be one of its states and will have its best opportunity yet to achieve prosperity and stability. The last...
Wining & Dining. Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, however, were less than enthusiastic about the federation scheme. Borneo leaders resented being invited to join merely as a political and racial accommodation, desired instead some sort of independence of their own. Then Britain began putting quiet pressure on the three territorial governments, tried to persuade them that union in Malaysia offered them far more economic and political power than they could ever achieve by themselves...
...birth day; action on requests to the government usually took from six months to three years. The dominant but powerless People's Party was also dead-set against Malaysia; the party's erratic, goateed, onetime veterinarian leader, Sheik A. M. Azahari, 34, wanted instead to align Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo into a single independent state-with himself as its leader...