Dr Comber's account of General Templer's administration in Malaya
as High Commissioner and Director of Operations (1952-54) during
the Malayan Emergency departs from the usually accepted orthodox
assessment of his time in Malaya by focusing on the political and
socio-economic aspects of his governance rather than the military.
In doing so, Dr Comber has relied mainly on primary and other
first-hand sources, including the confidential reports sent from
Malaya by the Australian Commission to the Australian government in
Canberra, and the private papers of some of the leading Malayan
politicians of the time with whom Templer had dealings which have
been deposited in the ISEAS Library, Singapore, many of which have
not been used before. The evidence and facts that Dr Comber
marshals in this study reflect well the reservations that were
often felt about General Templer's authoritarian form of
government. While he was a good general and had an impressive
military record, his administration in Malaya was marred by a lack
of understanding of the background to Malaya's history and the
subtleties that are inherent in its culture and way of life which
would have enabled him to come to terms more easily with the
aspirations of the Malayan people for self-government and
independence.
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