Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India, Japan, Korea, Malaya, Siam, British Pacific Islands, French Pacific Islands, Guam, Java, The Netherlands Indies, Philippines, Samoa and Sumatra...
...famed "Ramsay Mac," lived for five years in Canada as the United Kingdom's High Commissioner. In that time he learned more than most Britons know about Canada and the way Canadians feel. Last week in London, headed for a new post as Governor General of Malaya, he gave Great Britain some sound advice on how to get along with her oldest daughter...
...weaving of an empire was nothing compared to the job of unraveling it. Whenever the Labor Government tried to straighten the threads, its fingers caught in the old, hard knots. Last week autocratic sultans and old-line Tories alike were denouncing the British Government for high-handed imperialism in Malaya. British efforts to increase Malayan self-government had resulted in a terrible tangle...
...plan to unify Britain's nine Malay States and the Straits Settlements (excluding Singapore) into a single Malay federation was worked out long ago, "in the Coalition days. An ardent Tory, Sir Harold MacMichael, went out to Malaya last October to explain the plan to the nine Sultans. The Sultans themselves promptly consented to sign away all their sovereign powers (except their religious authority). Then they got to thinking it over...
...Malaya for Whom? In Singapore a British fact-finding commission examined the biggest knot of all, firmly tied by British imperialists who for the last 60 years have imported foreign labor to work their tin mines and rubber plantations. Now more than two million Chinese and some 750,000 Indians outnumber the two million easygoing Malays. Many of the industrious Chinese have since advanced far beyond the latter in education and have established thriving businesses of their own. In Britain's plan for self-government and federation with equal citizenship for all, inhabitants of the Malay Peninsula fear that...