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Four months ago Sir Henry Gurney, Britain's High Commissioner in Malaya, was murdered by jungle Communists. Last week the British appointed a new High Commissioner to take his place: tall, lean, Anglo-Irish Sir Gerald Templer, one of the scrappiest fighters and toughest administrators in the British army. Winston Churchill had him fly the Atlantic to be looked over before being given a job which will require tact as well as toughness...
Piano Casualty. A brusque soldier who likes to raise his voice in regimental song, 53-year-old Gerald Templer began his fighting career on the Western Front in 1916. Since then, he has generally been found in the thick of things wherever & whenever Britain had a war or her hands: in the Caucasus against the Bolsheviks in 1919, in Palestine in 1935, at Dunkirk in 1940. In 1942 Gerald Templer became the youngest general in the British army, and probably the only one who was ever wounded by a grand piano. On Anzio Beach a truck loaded with loot...
...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...
...exhibition. Wide and varied choice is evidenced in the assemblage of examples of decorative art, which include among other things an unusual tea service designed by Puiforcat, ceramic gardens and textiles conceived by Raoul Dufy, unique "Camel" and "Lucky Strike" cigarette cases designed by Legrain, jewelry of Raymond Templer, and ash trays by Lalique...