Word: sarawak
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They landed first at Miri, the center of Sarawak's oil fields, which British sappers blew up. Then they landed at Kuching, the capital. They landed unresisted by so much as a British frigate...
These words were almost a century old last week, and almost a hundred times as ironic as their author, Sir James Brooke, the first swashbuckling white Raja of Sarawak in Borneo, thought they ever would be. For last week evildoers with scant respect for the English union jack descended on his Sarawak...
Jamie Brooke's grandnephew, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, now Raja of Sarawak, said some bitter words on this matter in Australia, in ironic counterpoint to Grand-uncle Jamie's complacency: "Brass hats . . . lah-di-dah old-school-tie incompetents, who are responsible for the fantastic position in Malaya, should be sacked immediately. When I left, I was given to understand that, should Sarawak be attacked, it would receive air support. The only protection over Sarawak today is Dutch...
...Japanese landed in Sarawak, on the wild and oily island of Borneo. So far this was only a holding attack on Singapore's flank; it might eventually develop into a quest for oil, but the British reported that they had already destroyed the wells in the region threatened by the Japanese...
...Ranee of Sarawak, en route to London from Borneo, sounded off to Manhattan reporters on titled visitors, declared: "They're making enemies. . . . What have we got to be snobbish about? The English aristocracy is down and out. . . . Your moneyed crowd kowtow to anybody with a handle to his name. These smarties don't like me. They like my title...