In an occasional self-deprecatory moment the late Sir John Kerr liked to tell the story of his visit to London in 1945. The future Governor-General was then merely Major Kerr in the Army’s Directorate of Research and Civil Affairs. His mission in London was to smooth over tensions that had developed between this Directorate of Research and the British authorities responsible for the post-War government of British Borneo.
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