Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nineteen years ago, U.S. experts stopped the black fly's first severe invasion of the hemisphere, in Cuba. At that time they imported a parasitic insect from Malaya that destroyed the pest. But for Mexico, where the fly turned up in 1935 in west coast Sinaloa, the old parasite was no good. Since then U.S. scientists have found a new Malayan parasite, a wasp whose larvae will hatch inside the Mexican fly's larvae and devour them. This week a shipment of wasps was on its way to Mexico for the test...
...victory made a major change in the political and strategic world picture on the western shore of the Pacific. From Bering Strait to the Gulf of Tonkin Communism was now the major force. The western world merely held sentinel positions in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. Indo-China, Malaya and Burma -all three in turmoil-lay beneath the Communist threat...
...place to destroy Communism is in Moscow-not China, Malaya or the Dutch East Indies. Through Western Europe and Germany is the path to Moscow. The present battle for Germany may well begin the battle for Moscow...
...members were about to jump on them with both feet. Said one Dutch delegation member: "That was a calculated risk we had to take." The Dutch also knew that the risk was not too great; had not the British themselves sent several units of the Guards Brigade to Malaya to suppress a Communist rebellion? Were not the French and their Foreign Legion fighting a war in Indo-China...
Guards Brigade, the Fourth Hussars, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers as well as naval and airforce units to Malaya. To hold their rebellious colonies, the French and Dutch are using men who could be used for the defense and recovery of Europe. The Kremlin did not create the anti-Western drive in Southeast Asia-but stepping up that drive now is a shrewd and important move in the Kremlin's World Plan...