Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SINGAPORE -- Japanese bombers were decisively beaten today in their first major daylight raid on Singapore and officials predicted that the Allies would have air superiority in Malasia within three days, but they said that meanwhile Kuala Lumpur, capital of the Federated Malay States and second city of Malaya, had fallen to the invaders...
General Pownall had found in the city plenty of monuments in stone and bronze, but almost none in flesh, to a spirit which would have been more than equal to Malaya's jam-that of Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of the city. Besides the great ramshackle Raffles Hotel, Singapore boasts a Raffles Place, a Raffles Institution, a Raffles Library, a Raffles Museum, a Raffles statue-but not a Raffles soul. There were not many men in this Singapore who would bother, as Raffles did, to learn the Malayan language at 25, to undertake...
...pungent General Pownall would prove to be in his new job, no one could tell last week. Like all men entering on new duties, he was praised. But the only true test would be his performance-the immediate index of which would be results in Malaya, the ultimate index results in all eastern Asia...
Besides this record, he has some qualities which though they may not hold Malaya or take back Hong Kong, suggest that he is a good fighting general. He is young-54. His superiors think him bright: he first came to public view in 1938 when he jumped 100 seniority places to become Director of Military Operations and Intelligence. He looks and sounds like a man with the juice of command in him: short, stocky, broad-shouldered, spruce, calm-voiced, neat, a pipe-smoker. He is a man of few words-"a most precise fellow," says a colleague-but the words...
Last week Pilot Iinuma, still fit as a fiddle at 28, had a job of another kind to do. This time his mission was to bomb the British in Malaya. This time he was greeted by R.A.F. pilots, who paid their tribute in lead. Their bullets found Pilot Iinuma, wounded him mortally. As one last supreme test of his endurance, he managed to fly his plane back to its base. Then he died...