Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as Japan pursued her present foreign policy. From Singapore, U.S.-made, Australian-manned bombing planes roared 100 miles to sea to meet a second batch of men and machines to reinforce that vital British fortress. Said Major General Lionel Vivian Bond, Commander of the British land forces in Malaya: "The United States Fleet is the most powerful factor deterring the activity of an enemy of Britain in the Pacific area." Between them the U.S. and Britain had told Japan that...
...Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...
...Malaya's men were willing to talk. They had fought the Jutland veteran as Vice Admiral Sir James Somerville's flagship in the Mediterranean fleet's spectacular show at Genoa on Feb. 9. Malaya, a sister of Queen Elizabeth, had lately been on convoy duty in the Atlantic. A 20-ft. gash in her port side, they told a Herald Tribune reporter, was the mark of a German torpedo in a submarine attack, the night of March 20. With her convoy of 20 merchant vessels apparently on a safe getaway, repairs-reporters guessed#151;under the provisions...
...after the Malaya put in, Frank Knox issued a statement: "I wish to commend the action of the press associations, newspapers, broadcasting companies and photographic agencies who have cooperated. . . . It is true that many people can see these ships as they arrive. ... It is also true that enemy agents can report these movements; but it seems to me only sportsmanlike that the keen American press refrain from giving a report of these ships for it the benefit of press's Britain's enemies. ...." As it was, the press's self-censorship merely concealed from the U.S. public...
...Said he: "Japan has the heart of a dove of peace, but a snake-the United States and Great Britain-has placed its egg in the dove's nest." The egg, Major Akiyama went on to explain, was "the fortification of Singapore, the arrival of Australian troops in Malaya and the impending fortification of Guam and Samoa...