Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hours one brilliantly moonlit night last week a strip of granite and concrete, 1,153 yards long and 20 yards wide, was the safety valve of the British Empire. The Battle of Malaya was lost; the Battle of Singapore was about to begin. Between the two battles there lay only the narrow strip connecting Johore and Singapore Island, known as the Causeway...
...they crossed in a weary parade, troops sandwiching trucks, refugees teetering on lorries crammed with household goods, cameramen looking warlike armed with all their paraphernalia, the men knew that Singapore Island might be just as hard to defend as Malaya had been. They would have one of the advantages that General MacArthur's troops have on Bataan-a relatively small area for their small numbers to defend. They had about three divisions to guard more than 60 miles of the island's circumference against about six Japanese divisions. They knew, from bitter acquaintance, the preponder ance...
...motley column on the Causeway dwindled off. Finally, with a touch of ceremony such as only the British could devise in such circumstances, the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, who had been the first Britons to meet the Japanese up Thailand way, marched across, the last to leave Malaya. They marched to the defiant skirl of an Argyll bagpipe...
...theme of his bellowing was simple, understandable and dear to Aussie hearts. Australia had poured half of its effective Army (about 170,000 men), an increasing flow of airmen, Bren guns, shells and other munitions into Greece, Crete, Libya, Malaya. Australia now demanded a place and a say in the British War Cabinet...
...atrophied muscles occasioned by too many hours in Widener. The deplorable physical condition in which many of our supposedly hale and hearty youths find themselves after four years of college will hardly lead to stirring victories in the hills of the Bataan Peninsula or in the sultry jungles of Malaya. It was once hoped that all students would avail themselves of the excellent athletic facilities at Harvard. However, such has usually not been the case, and once Freshmen have passed on to the privileged and indifferent status of upperclassmen, they have assumed the right of letting their bodies quietly disintegrate...