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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...
...Australian (New Zealand's "Kiwi" contribution to the Australia-New Zealand Army Corps is a 150-man, six-gun, 105-mm. battery) approach to the tactics of the Viet Nam war was honed in jungle warfare against the Japanese in World War II and the Communists in Malaya. Their credo: avoid trails, avoid villages, avoid resupply; slide into the jungle like a snake and hide, then terrorize the enemy at will. "Fortunately, we've trained and equipped ourselves for such a war as this in Southeast Asia for years," says Brigadier O. D. Jackson, commander of the First...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The startling similarities and important differences between the war in Viet Nam and the successful twelve-year British campaign against Communist guerrillas in Malaya are reviewed in "How to Fight a Guerrilla War." Repeat...