Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only yardstick by which you measure world reaction towards yourselves is the extremely friendly attitude of the occupation personnel, but there are other places in the world where people are by no means inclined to forget so soon what has happened. I've just come back from Malaya and I must say it'll be some time before Japanese can safely do business there...
Typhoid fever is usually easy to prevent-thanks to modern sanitation and vaccination. But once the disease takes hold, doctors have had no specific cure. But a medical "mistake" in Malaya now offers hope...
...Malaya seemed to have gone berserk. Arson had become commonplace. Workers battled police with spears and picks. Posters cried: "Destroy those who work for other races." Sir Edward Gent, High Commissioner of the Malay Federation, proclaimed a state of emergency, granted extraordinary powers to the police...
When the Japanese invaded Malaya, a plain-faced Eurasian woman named Sybil Kathigasu was living in the town of Ipoh with her doctor-husband, Addon, and their four-year-old daughter, Dawn. The Kathigasus moved into the interior, took up farming, and started a "grow more food'' campaign. After a while the Japanese discovered what else the Kathigasus were doing: a radio in Sybil's bedroom picked up information which was relayed to the guerrillas; wounded resistance fighters and British stragglers were sheltered and given medical treatment in their house...
...dictated the last 50 pages of her book just before death came. Last week her body was buried in the village cemetery of Lanark, Scotland, far from husband Addon and daughter Dawn, who had been waiting in Malaya for her return. Sybil's epitaph came from Whitehall's Colonial Office: "She was the Edith Cavell of Malaya...