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Rise Ahead? Both markets withstood the first shock of Dday, just as both had tumbled at the Fall of France in 1940. But otherwise, each had its own unfathomable methods of deciding whether news was good or bad. Typically, while the Japs were lopping off the Malay States and Singapore in early 1942, the New York market tumbled. The London market declined, but rallied quickly. And percentag-wise, it has climbed far higher than has New York...
Wage Floor. The implications of a worldwide minimum wage are enormous. Its proposal by a member of an Empire Government, even in unofficial capacity, is arresting. Was he thinking of China? India? the Malay States? Or was he groping for some Archimedean machine to pull Britain, the U.S., Russia into line on a world trade basis? Morrison said only that his purpose was to eliminate "that worst of all forms of competition, which is based on the abject poverty and misery of the workers in socially backward countries...
...natural-born mimic with a voice box in its trachea, the Mynah lives all over the orient, especially in India and the Malay Penninsula. Not all Mynahs can be taught to talk. Those that can are a gold mine for bird fanciers...
...along the Irrawaddy River. Allied-trained and equipped Chinese troops, based in India, skirmished with Jap troops along the North Burma frontier, forced their retreat and destroyed their lines of communication. Reports came of British submarine operations as far south as the Strait of Malacca, between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula...
...this might be a feint; it was conceivable that Lord Louis Mountbatten, Commander of the Southeast Asia theater, might launch his major blow, not at Burma, but at the Malay Peninsula. It was conceivable that last week's threats were a nerve war. Lord Louis, still in London a fortnight ago, could not prepare a major campaign with a twist of his wrist. An invasion of the thick, mountainous jungle terrain of Burma called for a major effort, as the British had already found...