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Pakistan has lost considerable ground because of a sharp fall in cotton (23% of its exports) prices and drop in the volume of its jute (44% of exports) trade. Indonesia is sorely pressed by a 20% drop in crude rubber prices since 1956; so is Thailand. Malayan tin exports are off 50% this year, and 25% of the tin mines are shut down. From a healthy budget surplus in 1956, Malaya has gradually slipped into a $39 million deficit this year...
...head. British artillery plastered one sector near Sungei Siput with 25-pounders. An Australian battery poured mortar fire into another area, while only 400 yds. away a platoon of weary New Zealanders sweated out their 15th day of waiting for the enemy to show himself. For 33,000 Malayan and other Commonwealth troops, it was an exasperating kind of war which in three months had resulted in the capture or surrender of only nine terrorists...
...ties with you." Later, when 35 British Labor M.P.s demanded that Britain withdraw her troops from Malaya, they got no support from Rahman. Rather than urge British troops to go home, the Cambridge-educated Prince insists that "it is as much the duty of the British people as the Malayan to meet the Communist challenge...
Equal Time. As the industrial revolution finally reaches Moslem underdeveloped lands, polygamy is dying out by sheer force of economic circumstances. For it is the Prophet's admonition that a man must provide equal economic benefits for each of his wives. A young Malayan wife explained how she kept her husband from acquiring a second wife. Said she, giggling: "I just demand more of him, in every respect. Then I remind him that the Koran requires him to treat each wife equally...
...past year, to work on a 13th symphony, write a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku (music), and compose, on commission, a national anthem for the new state of Malay (it was rejected, along with entries by Benjamin Britten and others, in favor of a Malayan folk tune named Bright Moonlight...