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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...
Before him now lies Britain's top field command: commander in chief of the Army of the Rhine. A lean, austere martinet who characterizes himself as "a professional soldier ... no politician," Templer had expected no fond farewells in Malaya. Yet all the way to the airport from his gubernatorial mansion, his Rolls Royce had been mobbed by cheering, affectionate Asians: Malays, Chinese and Indians. From the turbaned representatives of nine Malayan potentates, Templer got a silver cigar box. On his wrist he wore a bamboo bracelet, given by the aborigines of far-off Negri Sembilan, to ward off evil...
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 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...