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Such political talk as there is in Brunei was concerned while I was there with two points. The Sultan had only just married a second wife a commoner. Opinions were divided over this development; the ordinary people had apparently taken it in their stride but some of the nobility and higher officials were worried over the effect on the Sultan's international image.
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Brunei's preparations for the assumption of complete independence at the end of 1983 appear to be going reasonably well. A Diplomatic Service is being established and one of my calls was on Dr Haji Mohammed Ali, Head of the Diplomatic Service Department. I found the latter as nice, and as unimpressive as when he was Deputy to the Brunei Government Agent in London a few years ago. is clearly passive by nature and, by all the signs, will soon be outshone by several of his underlings.
15. While in Brunei I visited the the National Museum and the
Churchill Memorial Museum, both of which are of a high standard. They must, however, rank amongst the world's most unvisited collections. The thick wall-to-wall carpetting in the National Museum looked practically unsullied; in the Churchill Museum the exit door had to be specially unlocked for us.
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16. The strong impression produced upon the visitor to Jakarta in late 1981 was of the quiet normality of the internal political situation. There appeared to be little interest in the elections of the People's Assembly due in May 1982, the results having been forecast
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