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...Chin Peng. By sternly refusing recognition to Red China, he has kept Malaya free of Mao Tse-tung's swarming diplomatic and cultural missions. Last week the Prime Minister slammed shut the last window that permitted Red infiltration: the Communist Bank of China in his capital city of Kuala Lumpur...
What was one of the soundest five-year plans in all Asia must now be curtailed. Originally, Malaya hoped to spend $361 million by 1960 for everything from better schools to an adequate port for Kuala Lumpur. Now all activity will be limited to projects already started...
JAMES A. MICHENER Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...
With the raising of the new flag in Kuala Lumpur, Britain welcomed the tenth member of a Commonwealth which now includes five nations dominated by people of European stock, four by Asians (Malaya, India, Pakistan, Ceylon) and one by Africans (Ghana). Of all the once vast British possessions east of Suez, only Hong Kong, North Borneo, Aden and a few scattered islands still remain...
...Blessed Legacy. But even in Malaya in the sunset of empire, Britain did things in style. At Kuala Lumpur's newly built Merdeka Stadium, the mustachioed Duke of Gloucester formally conferred sovereignty on the new nation, in the name of his niece, the Queen. Backing the duke was a distinguished group of Britons, including Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, who as High Commissioner to Malaya turned the tide against the Communist rebellion in Malaya in 1952-54, and Viscount Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor of Great Britain...