Word: templer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instant the stern face softened, the tight lips relaxed. Then the stiff-backed British general, regaining his composure, turned on his polished heel and marched towards his airliner at Kuala Lumpur in western Malaya. General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, the man who saved Malaya from the Communists, was on his way home, a job well done...
Thus, in the jungles of Malaya, was one Communist recently rendered "politically reliable" by his own comrades, the British army command in Malaya learned last week. There were other evidences of a widespread purge and toughening of the hard-pressed guerrilla forces. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer's firm drive against the Communists has apparently spread discontent and created waverers among the Communists. Over the past few weeks, some 40 suspect jungle fighters have been strangled, buried alive or beaten to death with rifle butts, according to British army sources. After a formal inquiry into the executions...
...hopeful sign: the appointment of one of Britain's top policemen, Colonel Arthur Young, 46, to replace Kenya's retiring Police Commissioner Michael O'Rorke. Young, boss of the City of London's police, is the man who helped General Sir Gerald Templer reorganize Malaya's police. He considers it his job to build up "first of all respect, and then esteem" for Kenya's ill-trained, badly equipped and sometimes indiscriminately cruel 24,000-man national police force...
...Templer will stay in Malaya until June. His successor: Sir Donald MacGillivray, 47, a Scottish diplomat whose job it will be to consolidate the peace that Templer made possible by war. Templer's new job is the top field command that Britain has to give. Under NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Alfred M. Gruenther, he will command British, Canadian, Dutch, Belgian and Danish troops guarding the vital plainlands between the Baltic and the Rhine. The backbone of his command: some 80,000 men of Britain's Army of the Rhine, which includes the heaviest concentration of armor (three...
...Templer of Malaya is unlikely to stay long on the Rhine. He is now considered odds-on favorite to be the next Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), the No. 1 military job in the British Commonwealth...