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...spring, the allies should outnumber the enemy 4 to 1-far less than the nearly 10-to-l superiority that Britain's General Sir Gerald Templer enjoyed in Malaya's twelve-year
...Ambassador Lodge, who predicted last August that "once the Viet Cong and Hanoi have been convinced that their attempt at aggression is doomed to failure, they will stop... there's going to be a silence." Proponents of this view cite the revolutions in Greece, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaya, which all fizzled out. Critics, however, observe two new and significant factors: the Vietnamese Communists have broad popular support as well as a twenty year head start...
Timid no more. A year ago last May, Saigon and the U.S. decided to build up the national police so that they could carry out a classic role in counterinsurgency as developed by the British in Malaya: Resource Control. In plain terms, their function is to deny guerrillas food, medicine and supplies. Pham Van Lieu, a crack former marine commando, was brought in to restore discipline and esprit and to try to mend fences with the regular military. The number of canh sat was doubled from 22,000 to the present 53,000, will total 72,000 by 1967-many...
...illustrious line of British colonial fiction may have arrived at parade's end with this trilogy of short novels about the last days of British rule in Malaya; Britain has no place to send another Kipling, Maugham, Forster, Greene or Waugh. Author Burgess' witness to the waning of the imperial day is Victor Crabbe, a teacher in a multiracial prep school solemnly modeled by its British founders after Eton and Harrow (Burgess himself served for three years as an education officer in Malaya). Bemusedly, Crabbe sees that the system is crumbling, but the snobbery is not. Malays hate...
Problem of Etiquette. A more pertinent case than Korea is the battle put up by the British in Malaya. There, led by General Sir Gerald Templer, they tenaciously fought Communist guerrillas side by side with Malayan nationals, throwing thousands and thousands of British soldiers into the war until it was finally and totally won in 1960. Because Malaya was a British colony, there was no problem of diplomatic etiquette, of waiting for an invitation before plunging into combat, such as the U.S. has had to face in Viet...