Word: malaya
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According to the author's somewhat breathless account, when Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita ("the Tiger of Malaya") moved to Manila in 1944, he took charge of several billion dollars' worth of gold that the Japanese had accumulated in their conquest of Southeast Asia. The bullion was cached in underground caves dug by U.S. and Filipino prisoners of war, who were then buried alive with it. Seagrave claims that Marcos was able to disperse the gold with the aid of a murky global network of coconspirators, including Swiss banks, a London-based bullion cartel, right-wing American political groups (among them...
...gifts mean? Can they have anything to do with the sisters' late father James Bourton, "the Suicide Peer," discovered at his desk with a "red mess where his head should have been"? Brayfield intercuts 40 years of well- researched background -- from the rubber plantations of World War II Malaya, where James went in as a boy and came out a man, to the Sassoon haircuts of 1965 London and the cocaine of today -- to solve the mysteries of James' sad end and the girls' birth. Sisterhood is powerful in this passionate page turner, whose primary lesson is an angry...
...shame and a waste not to find out what they were like with their clothes off." World War II offers Burgess nearly six years of wasted time in uniform; he gets no closer to combat than Gibraltar. Then it is on to teaching, including stints in England, Malaya and Brunei, before his death sentence and his decision to write as much as he could to provide for the support of his widow...
...Roosevelt cabled his friend Winston Churchill. Fun hardly seemed the right word at the time: the two leaders were sharing some of the darkest moments in history. It was January of 1942. The Japanese, after their attack on Pearl Harbor, were invading the Philippines and advancing southward through British Malaya; the Germans ruled most of Europe. But Jan. 30 was also Roosevelt's 60th birthday, and Churchill remembered to wish him many happy returns, "and may your next birthday see us a long lap forward on our road." That was what prompted Roosevelt's expression of delight...
More broadly, the end of the war permanently altered the imperial relations that had governed much of the world for about four centuries. Churchill, who once said he had not become Prime Minister to oversee the liquidation of the British Empire, lived to see it liquidated by others. India, Malaya, Kenya and other imperial outposts demanded and won the right to govern themselves. France's General De Gaulle, who had simply been notified of D-day rather than invited to help lead the attack, imperiously reasserted French claims to rule Lebanon, West Africa and Indochina. The Dutch vainly tried...