Word: sultanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morocco. "I spent five years in Morocco from 1941-1945 . . . President Roosevelt came to the Casablanca conference in January 1943, and with the recklessness of a schoolboy told the Sultan he should assert his independence of the French . . . This was like throwing a Roman candle into a barrel of gasoline." Childs's recommendation: the U.S. should abandon its "Alice in Wonderland policy," which is undermining the French administration. Instead, the U.S. should promote "greater liberty for the Moroccans, within the framework of the French Union, without inciting the Moroccans to open rebellion, which has only been to the advantage...
...R.A.F. was sending low-flying waves of bombers roaring over Pasir Plangie Palace. "Damnable, most damnable," protested the Sultan. He wrote to the editor of the Straits Times: "I am experiencing terrible noise . . The sky is very wide and I am certain they could avoid flying above my house if they will only take a little trouble to change their course ... I am really sick with the whole affair." The bomber people were actually about the King's business: they were hitting at Communist guerrillas who threatened the security of Malaya, and so the Sultan's letter...
Most Damnable. The British also reacted haughtily about Lydia Hill, the English showgirl the Sultan met in London's Grosvenor House in 1934. He brought Lydia to Johore with a flashing diamond on her left hand, but the British sahibs refused to accept her. The Sultan's reply: he ordered his gardeners to plant shrubs all over the sahibs' golf course, which was, after all, his own property. In time, the Sultan sent her back to England, and there Lydia was killed in an air raid in the act of buying a fur coat. The Sultan...
...days later, still in grief, the Sultan met Marcella Mendl. She was a tall, reddish-blonde Rumanian who spoke five languages, and it was a case of love at first sight. The warring British at that moment were too busy to comment on his marriage to Marcella, and the couple lived peacefully in Pasir Plangie Palace through the Japanese occupation. It was not until 1951, when the Sultan was preoccupied with his year-old child and also beginning to feel his 79 years, that the British went even further to displease...
...Serene, Commissioner General MacDonald felt it was his home. He had done most of his entertaining there, pursued his hobby of ornithology, housed there his collection of objets d'art (Malay silver and Chinese porcelain) and his rare Asian library. When he showed no inclination to move, the Sultan's men cut off the water supply to the swimming pool. Scot MacDonald, a stubborn man, went swimming in the rivers of Borneo instead, and went on living at Bukit Serene. Last week, however, all appeals to the Sultan's better nature having failed, he packed...