FCO 141/16905: Singapore: cession of Sarawak to the UK; policy - migrated archives
01/01/1946-31/12/1948
Further documents on developments in Sarawak including the mainly Malay opposition to the cession and further papers on the activities and exclusion of Anthony Brooke. Documents include an appeal against the cession to King George VI from Bertram Brooke, the heir to the Raja of Sarawak and from the United Sarawak National Association, a very detailed draft statement from the Colonial Office on the cession, a series of 7 photographs of opposition marches and propaganda messages and articles and letters written by Anthony Brooke and published in the 'Straits Times' and elsewhere, including a copy of 'Has Britain a Guilty Conscience about Sarawak?'
FCO 141/16905
D2014040169
English
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