Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill extending the 40-hour work week (while the majority of the nation would have it stretched to 60 hours), vetoes it because the laborites make a mutual "I'll vote for you if you'll vote for me" swap with the farm bloc. So Singapore, Malaya, Java, the Philippines fall for want of equipment. When is this petty conniving, this sabotage for special privileges...
MacArthur was gone to a higher command. The Japanese General Homma, licked to a standstill and dead by his own hand, was a handful of ashes in a bedizened shrine. His successor, pot-bellied General Tomoyuki Yamashita, conqueror of Malaya, faced a classic U.S. cavalryman: lean, dashing Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, who had been promoted to Lieutenant General to fill Douglas MacArthur's man-size shoes...
...British had sworn to scorch the earth of Malaya, but the job was badly done. They scarcely singed the edges, left many a handsome prize for the oncoming Jap. U.S. Lieut. General Walter Krueger, commander of the Third Army, thought he could see the reason for the British failure: ignorance and insufficient explosives. He ordered an immediate training program to acquaint every combat unit under his command with the ins-&-outs of demolition...
...proposes to defend Australia for two reasons: 1) to keep open at least the southern half of the Indian Ocean and its approaches from the South Atlantic (see map); 2) to base a counteroffensive against the Indies, Malaya and Japan itself. The first reason is compelling. But the real value of southern Australia's distant ports and cities for counterassault is open to argument...
...Remember, we are the Anzac breed. Our men stormed Gallipoli. They swept through the Libyan Desert. They were the 'Rats of Tobruk.' . . . They were the men who fought under bitter, sarcastic, pugnacious [General Henry] Gordon Bennett down Malaya, and were still fighting when the surrender of Singapore came...