Word: sulu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wind Rises. The Company began in 1872 when a Scots engineer named William Clarke Cowie (who looked like a bartender in one of the very best hotels) ran a Spanish blockade to deliver his cargo of arms to the Sultan of Sulu, ruler of North Borneo. The grateful Sultan granted him shipping rights in his domain; later, at a resplendent dinner, he let Cowie persuade him to cede sovereignty over North Borneo to a British syndicate (in an expansive mood, the Sultan threw in the mother-of-pearl dessert plates on the table, along with his realm). Cowie...
...vigor, as that of all companies must, in time abated. Last week, the Company was up for sale to Britain's Labor Government. The price was not yet fixed (the Company had rejected a Government offer of ?2,100,000), and assorted descendants of the original Sultan of Sulu were raising claims to the island. But there was no doubt that the grandly anachronistic rule of the last corporate Raj was doomed. Said the president of the court of directors, white-haired, parchment-skinned, 76-year-old Major General (retired) Sir Neill Malcolm: "[The Company] is not quite...
...Cocos. In London, the youngest, strangest royal D.P. of all packed his own bags. He was John Clunies-Ross V, 19, King of the Cocos Islands (TIME, June 11). Ross V has the lean, long countenance of his Scottish seafaring ancestors. His brother favors their Malayan grandmother (a royal Sulu princess in her own right). Their sister manages to look like both of them...
...Leyte campaign strategically closed and turned over the mop-up (which has produced 26,000 dead Japs) to the Eighth. The "Amphibious Eighth" staged the Visayan campaign, which MacArthur called "a model of what a light but aggressive command can accomplish in rapid exploitation." Then it went on to Sulu and Mindanao, where the grateful Sultan of Sulu and Moro chiefs presented to Eichelberger several handsome kris and bolo knives (which the General displays prominentlv at his thatched headquarters on Leyte...
Ross IV was a strapping, handsome man with high cheekbones inherited from his Malayan mother (a royal Sulu princess). His chief relaxations from the cares of kingship were listening to whispers of the faraway world that arrived over his private station (the objective of the Japanese bombing) and reading whodunits (he owned a library of 5,000 books). The only white woman in his kingdom was his consort, Queen Rose, a petite Cockney cashier about 25 years his junior, whom he had married in London...