Word: selangor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selangor, 3,160 square miles of Brit ish protectorate on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, all important problems of State are settled by a British Resident...
Died. Ala'idin Sulaiman Shah, 74, Sultan of Selangor, third largest of the Federated Malay States; in Klang, Selangor. Some years ago the Sultan and the British agreed that his first son was not fit to succeed him. Two years ago the Sultan journeyed to London to persuade the Colonial Office that his second son should succeed. That trip was in vain: the British insisted on his third son, Cambridge-educated Tungku Laxaman...
While 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor, father of 43 children, attended to such chores of state as having audience of King Edward VIII, his young fourth wife busied herself in London last week buying presents for wives...
...might be expected, the Crown Prince of Selangor. Because the Colonial Office dislike him, British pressure deprived him of his rank and forced in Son No. 3 as Crown Prince. Last week the Sultan of Selangor was reported somewhat feebly attempting to convince William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Malay custom was interfered with when Son No. 2 was also rejected...
...four Federated Malay States under British "protection," humid, sleepy Selangor is next to the smallest in area, out important because of its tin deposits. Originally the Malays were extremely virile. The Japanese people are descendants of Malay conquerors. Today the chief function of the impotent Malay Peninsula is to supply 40% of the world's tin. Enhanced is the Sultan of Selangor's glory by the fact that Kuala Lumpur, his Capital, serves as the Capital of the Federated Malay States, but this causes the Sultan to be under the thumb of His Britannic Majesty's High...