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...probably the best any British possession has ever had. The government is bringing along natives as No. 2 men in all departments. By Oriental standards education is already advanced (literacy is around 40%), and big school-building programs are afoot. On my way out to see Mac-Donald at "Bukit Serene," three miles from Johore Bahru, the Malayan taxi driver said: "If we were going five miles, I would have to ask you to lie down on the floor. The bandits keep watch at five miles. If they saw you, then at seven miles they would shoot...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
Victory was no longer the question. The opposite choice, death, would have meant the useless slaughter of civilians. And so General Percival made the hard, the humiliating choice. He went, as directed, to a Ford Motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah, a hill where, earlier that day, there had been bloody fighting. There, at 7 p.m., after some palaver, he signed away large pieces of the land, the power and the pride of the British Empire...