Word: templer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to his week-by-week stories, it was Dowling's job in the three years to send in battlefield background for three TIME cover stories: Generals De Lattre and Navarre of Indo-China, General Templer of Malaya...
Promoted to command NATO's North ern Army Group: General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, able, hard-boiled British professional who in two years of jungle fighting has mastered the Communist threat to rubber-rich Malaya. Austere and dedicated, Sandhurstman Templer found Malaya in despair, with the Red guerrillas everywhere pressing harder; his counterattack matched their ferocity, in two years reduced the average monthly toll of murders and other "incidents" from...
Asia's No. 3 war is going well. Thirteen months after he arrived in Malaya with a directive from Churchill to clean up the Communists, High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer announced last week that mass detentions and deportations are no longer necessary. Hated regulation 170, under which the British have arrested and screened whole villages, kept more than 10,000 suspected Communist collaborators in concentration camps and deported 761 others, was abolished. "We are about where I hoped we should be by this time," wiry General Templer told the Malayan Federal Legislative Council, with about as much optimism...
...With Red guerrillas on the run, Sir Gerald Templer could concentrate on social problems...
Last week General Templer decided that the war was going well enough for him to cancel all standing information rewards. The decision, explained the government, was influenced by "a desire to return to normal." There is still a chance to earn some $80,000 by capturing No. 1 Malayan Communist Leader Chin Peng before the March 1 deadline; after that an informer will have to consider duty its own reward...