Summary: Army training film of Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer in discussion with Major-General David Lloyd Owen and Lieutenant-Colonel J P Foley on the role of the High Command in the anti-terror campaign in Malaya, 1947-1955. Film covers Templer's appointment as High Commissioner, the development of intelligence services; relations between the armed forces and the civil powers; Templer's relationship with the Malayan Government and the Civil Service; his relationship with the British Government, particularly Oliver Lyttelton, Secretary of State for the Colonies; his relationship with the press; his views on the British soldier, particularly his comments that too many officers and senior NCOs were unfit to fight; and his views on Malaya since its independence in 1957.
