Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks, have to decide whether or not it will go to war in another theatre. If German victory begins to look probable, it is highly possible that Japan will move to seize The Netherlands East Indies. If Germany goes on to destroy the British Empire, Japan may seize British Malaya...
...jeopardized another $35,000,000 a month in exports to the Allies, nearly equivalent losses of imports from Europe. To the U. S., Latin America is a great potential market for industrial products, a great potential source of needed raw materials (such as rubber, tin) whose usual sources (British Malaya, Dutch...
...also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident that the wounded ship was heading for port when attacked; that her "blister" saved her, since only four men were killed...