Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...natural rubber available this year (975,000 tons) as in 1939 (990,000 tons). Estimates for 1947: between 1,112,000 and 1,412,000 tons. But another reason was that Britain has been losing money on its state trading. The Government bought thousands of tons of rubber in Malaya at 23.6/ a pound, thought rubber was scarce enough so it could keep the price pegged at this level. But the high price brought out so much rubber that the price fell to 20.25?. This lesson in free enterprise economics can cost Socialist Britain millions...
...take the spotlight. They wasted no time in embarrassing one of their own ministers. When slim, tense Fred Bellenger made his first utterance in the House as War Minister, they pounced on him with "shocked surprise" at the two-year sentences for mutiny passed on 243 paratroopers in Malaya. Because of "intolerable" living conditions, the men, all privates, had refused to stand parade. One young paratrooper requested a divorce because "I am a criminal now." His sparky 20-year-old wife promptly wrote back "No, no, no, I love you too much," presented the Government with a 35,000-signature...
When Mrs. Ruth Li of Singapore had her first baby, a girl, she named the infant Patsy Li (from Pai-ti Li, which is Chinese for "White Plum Blossom"). Patsy was six and had a younger sister, Lottie, when the Japanese attacked Malaya. Mrs. Li escaped from Singapore with her two children aboard a ship. At sea, the ship was torpedoed and sunk by the Japs...
While he demobilized and repatriated an army of 5,000,000 he set up the machinery to receive, feed and readjust thousands of civilians returning from Japan's crumbled empire in China, the Central Pacific, Malaya and the East Indies...
Died. Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, 66, scion of the samurai, son of the 1910 annexer of Korea, wartime commander of Japanese land forces in the southern regions (IndoChina, Malaya, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines), former War Minister; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Johore, Malaya...