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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...
...Templer will stay in Malaya until June. His successor: Sir Donald MacGillivray, 47, a Scottish diplomat whose job it will be to consolidate the peace that Templer made possible by war. Templer's new job is the top field command that Britain has to give. Under NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Alfred M. Gruenther, he will command British, Canadian, Dutch, Belgian and Danish troops guarding the vital plainlands between the Baltic and the Rhine. The backbone of his command: some 80,000 men of Britain's Army of the Rhine, which includes the heaviest concentration of armor (three...
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...