Word: malaya
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...detection on Singapore's teeming streets, they spent much of their time in late-night movie houses. But last week the dragnet was out. Sweeping through the island state, government security police rounded up 115 pro-Communist subversives and labor agitators opposed to Singapore's inclusion, with Malaya and Britain's Borneo dependencies of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, in a proposed Malaysian Federation of 10 million people...
...Sukarno is doing all he can to prevent it. His government continually blusters about intervening militarily in British Borneo. Authorities in Singapore feared that local Communists might try to sabotage British bases on the island in order to hamper British retaliation in Borneo. Sukarno is also making muscles against Malaya, which would be the dominant state in the new federation. Djakarta has excluded Malayan fishermen from their traditional fishing grounds off the coast of Sumatra. An Indonesian gunboat recently sank a fully laden rubber barge inside Malayan territorial waters...
...federation would put a serious crimp in Sukarno's ambition to absorb oil-rich Brunei and its two neighbors. He also is anxious as usual for an issue to deflect mounting public criticism over Indonesia's growing economic crisis. Fearing that Sukarno is itching to start something, Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman appealed to London for reinforcements. The British obligingly put 2,000 crack troops on a 72-hour alert to reinforce its Southeast Asia forces, because of "the possibility of outside interference...
Understandably, the Japanese are risking only small amounts in fledgling economies, but the lure is irresistible. Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Japan's largest shipbuilder, is putting an initial $1,500,000 into a shipyard in Singapore, has joined in a $2,000,000 cement plant in Malaya. Yawata Iron & Steel...
...supplying 49% of the capital for a $16 million steel mill in Malaya. Matsushita Electric has started a battery plant in Thailand and an assembly plant for transistor radios and TV sets on Formosa. Japanese companies run a department store in Hong Kong and a toothpaste factory in Malaya, make gasoline rickshas in Pakistan and fountain pens in India. Altogether, no Japanese companies have moved into Southeast Asia...