Word: malay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gunfire because of overwhelming odds." ¶ "Try to promote democracy, land reform and an increase in production and living standards in all non-Communist countries, especially those threatened by Communist aggression." ¶ Stand by to help with air and naval forces if the Communists strike in Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula or the Near East. Get Britain and France to make the preponderant contributions of land forces for those areas "to compensate for their relative failure to help in the Korean struggle." ¶ Take all the allies to be found, including Tito, Franco and Chiang Kaishek. "They are not Democrats...
...Consider giving aid to Franco Spain and perhaps provide some land troops, sea and air forces to defend the Malay Peninsula, the Suez Canal and North Africa...
...years old when the Japanese soldiers took her mother & father away from Bandung, Java, where papa Adriaanus Hertogh was a sergeant in The Netherlands East Indies army. Bertha was too young to remember just how it happened, but while she was staying at the home of Che Aminah, a Malay woman known to her parents, the rest of the family disappeared into prison camp...
...under the age of consent and therefore her marriage to Mansur was annulled. The girl bride wept over the verdict. "I am a Moslem," she wailed. "I don't want to go to Christian parents." She turned to Che Aminah. "Mother, what can I do?" The Malay woman fainted...
...fanatic mob, 5,000 strong, ranged the streets, shouting "Nadra!" and "Allah!", stoning and cudgeling Europeans and Eurasians, overturning automobiles, driving whites into terrified hiding. Singapore's Malay police seemed to have no heart to restrain their coreligionists. British and Gurkha troops, with bayonets and riot shields, barred the mob from a march on the Convent of the Good Shepherd, four miles outside the city, where Bertha and mama Hertogh waited for a plane to Holland. There the girl doffed her Moslem veil for European dress, tried to remember her Dutch, fondled a doll, told her mother...