Word: templer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's new High Commissioner for Malaya, General Sir Gerald Templer, intended that the people of Tanjong Malim should suffer. It was his way of punishing them for having failed to supply information about the Communist terrorists who had murdered twelve men of a pipeline repair gang near by (TIME, April...
...Have Some Guts." When Malaya's new British high commissioner, tough little General Sir Gerald Templer, heard the news, he sped to the barbed-wire village in his armored car, assembled 300 village elders in a school auditorium, and meted out punishment. Tanjong Malim had long been a supply and information depot for the Red guerrillas, he said. "It does not amuse me to punish innocent people," snapped Templer, "but many among you are not innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped...
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...urgently needed for a large group of D.P.s, the local mayor is given a curt order to clear the needed dwellings, the inhabitants being given five minutes to get out." Once, when cynical British army clerks in Brussels expressed doubt over the authenticity of atrocity stories about Belsen, Templer sent them over to the horror camp in trucks and made them shovel corpses as an object lesson...
Extra Authority. Such forthright methods should go far toward bringing order out of the chaos in Malaya's jungles. Some Britons, questioning Templer's appointment, last week wondered whether his methods would be as effective in soothing Malaya's populace, which, like all Eastern peoples, bristles with nationalistic pride and racial jealousies. Chief problem: winning over the 2,000,000 Chinese in Malaya, who control much of the colony's business but are denied political equality. Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, recently returned from Malaya, says: "You cannot expect to overcome the emergency without the help...