Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost the military initiative. In Singapore thousands of Australian troops landed after a 3,000-mile trip. They sang Roll Out the Barrel, tossed pennies down on British dignitaries waiting to welcome them, cockily announced that they were "all set and fighting fit," then set out for northern Malaya. U. S.-made bombing planes reinforced the British Air Force at Singapore. New U. S. fighting planes were sent to the U. S. Fleet in Hawaii...
...major objective of present American policy in Asia is not the protection of American commercial or territorial interests. It is to prevent the spread of totalitarian conquest by the Asiatic member of the Axis. A Japanese conquest of Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies would immeasurably increase the danger of world dominance by the Axis powers. The security of the United States, of the entire British Commonwealth, and of all other democracies de- pends upon successful resistance to the Japanese thrust...
...flew into docks, warehouses, oil tanks, power stations, supply ships, harbor installations, and into the electric and boiler works of the huge Ansaldo shipbuilding plant. In the whole operation, only one Swordfish was lost. The squadron included the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Renown, the 31,000-ton battleship Malaya, a veteran of Jutland, the 22,000-ton aircraft carrier Ark Royal, the 9,100-ton cruiser Sheffield, and a covering guard of smaller vessels. The commander again was Sir James Somerville...
Axis stories grew and fattened. Berlin reported the 31,000-ton British battleship Malaya towed into Gibraltar, after having been put out of action in the Sicilian battle. Italy's spokesman Virginio Gayda raised Italy's score to ten British warships, then added another cruiser and the aircraft carrier Eagle, both torpedoed...
...abrupt. Foreshadowed in 1873 when England paid $27 for 2,000 smuggled rubber seeds,* whose planting was a failure, Brazil's ultimate doom was sealed in 1876 when Sir Henry Wickham brought out over 70,000 seeds of which 2,397 took and were eventually transported to British Malaya...