Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just because the British people of Singapore acted like people, there was no reason to lay on their heads the exclusive blame for the rout in Malaya and the loss of Singapore. And yet all across the U.S. this week ran the disgusted whisper: Those British...
...sway over one-third of the population of the world. The natives of India, given their freedom, could defend themselves with the same phenomenal resistance which has been exhibited by the inspired populations of China and Russia-that same determination which was notably lacking in the peoples of, lulled Malaya...
...last January at Sikeston, Missouri, Cleo Wright was shot, dragged behind an automobile, and burned in gasolene. That was at 2:30 p.m. At 3:30, the bloody details were known throughout the South, as well as in Malaya, the Philippines, the Dutch East Indies, and the islands of the Pacific. With a Japanese broadcast to the colored peoples of the world, the American institution of "lynch law" had become a deadly enemy of democracy in a very real as well as in a theoretical sense...
...good thing we're not counting on beating the Axis with the patriotic ballads that have been written since Pearl Harbor, because if we were, we would be in a pretty tough spot, but without a paddle. It's bad enough to hear bulletins telling of Japs in Malaya, Nazis in Libya, and U-boats off the Atlantic coast without having to take an ironic slap in the face when these bulletins are followed by a peachy little vocal trio telling us in anemic harmony to Remember Pearl Harbor, to Keep 'Em Flying, and that We Did It Before...
...critics reflected that he had given no convincing answer to charges that Britain's war councils, both productive and military, are rotten with dead wood and cluttered with red tape, that production could be 40% greater. Although he was doubtless right that Britain had been unable to reinforce Malaya, he did not explain away the fact that the British high command had mistakenly believed that Malaya could successfully repel any attack. His skillful apologies for the military past were little assurance for the future...