Word: templer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roman-fleuve lies in keeping track of the pasts and permutations of vast numbers of characters. One way and another, the war introduces and eradicates many of Powell's figurants. The ditching of the Yugoslav Chetnik Leader Mihailovich in favor of Tito costs the life of Peter Templer, one of Jenkins' oldest friends (and a veteran of novel No. 1, A Question of Upbringing), who fought with the wrong partisans. The Malayan debacle takes another of Powell's veteran characters, Charles Stringham, P.O.W. and presumed dead. The officer indirectly responsible for the orders that killed both...
...spring, the allies should outnumber the enemy 4 to 1-far less than the nearly 10-to-l superiority that Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer enjoyed in Malaya's twelve-year
Problem of Etiquette. A more pertinent case than Korea is the battle put up by the British in Malaya. There, led by General Sir Gerald Templer, they tenaciously fought Communist guerrillas side by side with Malayan nationals, throwing thousands and thousands of British soldiers into the war until it was finally and totally won in 1960. Because Malaya was a British colony, there was no problem of diplomatic etiquette, of waiting for an invitation before plunging into combat, such as the U.S. has had to face in Viet...
General's Problem. In temporary tactical command of the U.N. forces was Britain's Major General Henry Templer Alexander, who has been "seconded" to Ghana as commander in chief of the Ghanaian army. Early last week the Belgians were taking advantage of the confusion to parachute troops into smaller cities throughout the country, planning attacks on Matadi, Thysville, Stanleyville -Premier Lumumba's home town. Alexander cooled off the Belgians, rushed tough Ethiopian troops to Stanleyville and sent Colonel Ben Omar and his Moroccans down to Thysville and Matadi...