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...earliest work in the volume, dating from 1923, is In the Swamp (alternate title: In the Jungle of Cities), which is deliberately obscure and mystifying. Two men, Shlink and Garga, engage in a relentless but seemingly motiveless duel of wills. In typically bizarre Brechtian fashion, Shlink is a Yokohamaborn Malay who has become a lumber merchant in 1912 Chicago. Garga is a lending library clerk who refuses to sell Shlink his personal judgment of a book. Shlink decides to buy Garga's soul instead, and a peculiar campaign of mutual self-abasement develops. At first the audience...
...fiery Lee Kuan Yew, 37, on the wild night last year when 80,000 supporters of his left-wing People's Action Party celebrated its sweep of the island's first general elections. Seventeen months have passed since Lee and his motley crowd of Chinese, Indian and Malay anti-colonialists took over the internal government of the famed imperial base. The most startling change last week seemed to be the change that has come over Singapore's revolutionary rulers...
Federation by Example. Unlike the leaders of most other restive dependencies, Lee has no interest in seeing Singapore trade its present status as an autonomous state for complete and permanent independence. Instead, he insists that despite Singapore's overwhelmingly Chinese population (Chinese outnumber Malays six to one), the island's future lies in joining the Federation of Malaya. With this in view. Lee has made Malay the official language, has appointed as chief of state a Malay personage, Inche Yusof bin Ishak. So far, the Federation itself has been wary: Singapore's 1,200,000 Chinese would...
...City Divided. Expecting to stop the Japanese at the frontiers of Siam, British commanders in Malaya had never seen fit to fortify the island city of Singapore. Only when the Japanese began their inexorable push down the Malay Peninsula did Winston Churchill learn to his amazement that the island was barely defended to its north, and later bitterly recalled: "I ought to have known, and I ought to have been told, and I ought to have asked...
...neighboring Federation of Malaya (nearly 60% Malay, 40% Chinese), shrewd Prime Minister Abdul Rahman has created a successful racial coalition-the Alliance Party-of Malays, Chinese and Indians, and has won the support of responsible Chinese by fashioning a political movement as delicately balanced as a Calder mobile...