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...trackless mountain jungles of Pahang, largest and wildest of the Malaya states, are the special preserve of Sir Abu Bakar Riayatudin Almuadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Abdullah, one of the largest and mildest of Sultans. A robust, paternal, fun-loving man who deplores violence and loves to dance and sing with his people, the Sultan of Pahang was shocked and hurt by the support his people gave the Communists when the Reds began guerrilla warfare in Malaya after World...
Sheltered, fed and supplied by villagers in the interior, Communist guerrillas spread over Pahang like a plague of locusts, giving the Sultan's demesne a reputation as the "blackest" state in Malaya (where black or white signifies terrorist or safe areas). British security forces and government propagandists were getting nowhere; the Sultan decided to take matters into his own hands...
...plus frame onto a platform and deliver a fatherly lecture to the assembled villagers. His message: Communists are your enemies; report them instead of supporting them. (Said an aborigine leader: "Such a big man. Such a big voice. No wonder he is Sultan.") Some times the Sultan asked Communists in the crowd to step forward, like a revivalist calling on sinners to repent. But there the resemblance ended. The Sultan danced, sang and feasted with the villagers far into the morning, then retired, often in the company of a village maiden...
...time the Sultan's barnstorming won friends and depleted Communist ranks. But the Sultan knew he could not keep up this pace forever. He announced his next step: a personal amnesty to all who confessed. At each village, when not dancing or feasting, the Sultan retired to a secluded hut, where villagers arrived singly and in small groups to confess their errors and offer information about the local Communists. More than 300 Communists surrendered to the Sultan personally, and he got so much information about others that the security police rounded them up in droves...
Embracing Ben Youssef and kissing him on both cheeks in the best Arab tradition, Franco led him to a Rolls-Royce, and together, flanked by a squadron of Franco's Moorish guard, they drove into Madrid, while thousands of Spaniards waved handkerchiefs and cried Viva el Sultan! Later at Franco's El Pardo palace, the Order of the Yoke and Arrows (a Falangist creation) was hung around the Sultan's neck. Then the Moroccans got down to business in the Goya room at El Pardo. Recognizing that Spain's 44-year-old Moroccan protectorate (a kind...