Word: malaya
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House to visit a Kennedy aide. As Lederer tells the story, the President, carrying galley proofs of the book, emerged from his office to meet the author. The President, Lederer recalls, liked the book "and asked me if I knew what the British had done in Malaya. I said that I did, but that it would take me a few minutes to write it down. He took me to his office and sat me at his desk with a pen and paper...
Died. Frank E. ("Pappy") Noel, 61, Associated Press war photographer since 1937, who was torpedoed after escaping the fall of Singapore in 1942 (got a classic shot of a Lascar seaman in a lifeboat begging for water), covered Malaya, Burma, the Middle East, Europe and finally Korea, where he was captured, imprisoned for three years, somehow acquired a camera, and even conned his Chinese captors into letting him send pictures back to the U.S.; of a stroke; in Gainesville...
Britain's changing role in world affairs, as much as anything, has been responsible for the Australian awakening. During the Malaya emergency, and later during the Malaysian-Indonesian konfrontasi, when Britain's "thin red line" was stretched near the breaking point, Australia sent troops to stem Communist guerrilla activity. Britain's first moves to enter the Common Mar ket also turned Australia toward Asia...
...Kuala Lumpur, the reception was likely to be notably less restrained. On the eve of Johnson's arrival, a handful of University of Malaya students demonstrated against the Viet Nam war despite the government's attempts to avert such protests by arresting some 60 left-wing opposition leaders. Still, with two dozen welcoming committees at work on his 24-hour visit, it was likely to be a memorable one. No demonstrations were expected in Seoul, however, and Park anticipated crowds of 2,000,000 to greet the President-double the number that happily mobbed Dwight Eisenhower...
...Chin Peng. Son of a bicycle dealer who emigrated from China's Fukien province, Chin, 44, made the Crown's honors list for guerrilla resistance against the Japanese in World War II, led the Malay contingent in London's victory parade. But in 1948 he launched Malaya's Red "war of liberation" against Britain's colonial regime, which cost nearly 18,000 dead and required 350,000 Commonwealth troops before it was crushed. (London took back his O.B.E.) In 1955, Chin and 600 ragged followers withdrew to southern Thailand, bided their time living in attap...