Word: templer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Templer! Malaya...
...Templer! Full powers...
...Full power, Templer. Very heady stuff. Use it sparingly...
Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O. A message to Cobham, Surrey brought 54-year-old General Templer flying to the banquet room in Ottawa. Three weeks later he was in Malaya, with such military and political powers in his kit bag as no British soldier had had since Cromwell...
...first time there were fewer terrorist acts than police actions against the terrorists, and recent skirmishes showed that the Reds are short of arms. Such items, said General Templer, mark the turning point in Malaya's war. A possible reason for the decline: Moscow had ordered the Reds to drop terrorism, concentrate on winning the Malayan people...