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...became TIME'S Southeast Asia correspondent in 1950, Dowling commuted between his Singapore base and the wars in Malaya and Indo-China. His painstaking dispatches for TIME'S cover stories on France's GENERAL JEAN DE LATTRE DE TASSIGNY (Sept. 24, 1951) and GENERAL SIR GERALD TEMPLER of Malaya (Dec. 15, 1952) were models of thoughtful reporting...
Reporter Dowling knew how to handle people. Stiff-backed General Templer almost managed a smile as he told him: "You are like me. I can handle you!" Cambodia's King Norodom was enchanted when Dowling did the rongeng, a Malayan dance, for him. But his basic technique, he used to say, was silence. "Sooner or later something always snaps in the other person. Someone has to talk...
...mind on Formosa, it was also keeping uneasy watch on Malaya (pop. 7,000,000), its biggest strategic and economic stake in Southeast Asia. Against fewer than 6,000 Communist guerrillas, the British are currently deploying more than 250,000 troops, home guards and police. General Sir Gerald Templer's brilliant slash-and-starve campaign of two years ago drove the demoralized Communists into jungle lairs, but the Communist victories in nearby Indo-China have produced a new, hopeful rallying cry in the Malay jungles: "Father Mao Is Coming...
From the War Office last week came an unexpected communiqué: General Sir Gerald Templer, 55, victor of Malaya, would not get his promised command of the 80,000-man British Army of the Rhine. "Plans for General Templer's future employment in an important military appointment," said the War Office, "will be announced later. General Templer has been granted a long leave...
...further explanation was forthcoming. Immediately, reports began spreading from Whitehall that Templer's German appointment had been vetoed by West German Chancellor Adenauer. It was Templer who had dismissed Adenauer as Lord Mayor of Cologne in October 1945, "for not energetically carrying out the orders of the military government." But from Bonn came word that Adenauer had made no protest against the Templer appointment, and certainly bore no grudge. Another possibility: Templer is being held in reserve as Britain's candidate for supreme command of any new Southeast Asia treaty organization...