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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...
...popular newspapers demanded a "get tough" policy against the Greek Cypriot terrorists. Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like stern Sir Gerald Templer, who used such collective-punishment measures as cutting the rice ration of villagers in Malaya to make them inform on Communists...
...empire, Britain did things in style. At Kuala Lumpur's newly built Merdeka Stadium, the mustachioed Duke of Gloucester formally conferred sovereignty on the new nation, in the name of his niece, the Queen. Backing the duke was a distinguished group of Britons, including Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who as High Commissioner to Malaya turned the tide against the Communist rebellion in Malaya in 1952-54, and Viscount Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain...
Last week Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, flew into Ankara for urgent talks with Turkish leaders. "I am here as head of the British army," said General Templer. "If the issue of Cyprus is brought up, I will deal with it in my limited province as a military man." Presumably, however, he was there to acquaint the Turks with an Anthony Eden proposal to give the Cypriots self-rule and the right of self-determination within ten years...
...tripod of interests must be satisfied. A guaranteed continuance of the British military base, on an island free in time to determine its own political future-would that satisfy Turk, Greek and Briton? Last week the British announced that General Sir Gerald Templer, chief of the Imperial General Staff, would shortly confer with Turkish Premier Menderes. Everybody at least seemed to be trying...