Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There had been a council of war at Rideau Hall over Commonwealth defenses. Most urgent subject: the 3½-year "state of emergency" in Malaya, where Communist terrorists 1) had taken more than 3,000 lives; 2) were costing $150,000 a day to combat; 3) threatened tin and rubber...
Outside Singapore (a British Crown Colony), there are in Malaya roughly 2,600,000 Malays, 2,000,000 Chinese, and nearly 600,000 Indians. The Chinese are immigrants or the sons of immigrants, attracted to Malaya by the standard of living (highest in Asia), the high level of justice, the...
It is a measure of Gerald Templer's success that in less than one year he has been able to turn from quick skirmishes against disaster to slow battles for Malaya's peaceful future. "We are beginning to get the shooting war under control," said Templer. "Deserves highest...
Its occupant in the early 1820's and 30's was Richard Henry Dana, who left the house his name and also managed to size Richard, Junior author of Two Years Before The Mass. One of a row of yellow colonial houses, of which Wadsworth is at present one of...
Arriving in Nairobi last week to inspect Kenya's "security services," strapping Sir Percy Sillitoe, 64-year-old chief of Britain's famed M.I.5 (Secret Service), theorized that Red undercover agents keep in touch with the Mau Mau through a big Russian hospital in Addis Ababa. African patients...