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...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...
Sharing of Power. Urging Malays to support an enlarged franchise for Chinese, Dato Onn told Chinese businessmen: "You must share your economic power if we are willing to share our political power." He proposed that 50% of the Chinese get suffrage now, the other half in 20 years jvhen they are more thoroughly assimilated. The Chinese agreed to teach the Malays business know-how, through Chinese-financed training programs, Chinese-Malay companies and cooperatives. They rallied to the idea of a "political-economic partnership in which Chinese do not hate Malays and Malays do their share of work." But Dato...