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...Communist Boss Ho Chi Minh and Red China's Mao. But Communist Chieftain Chin Peng, who runs the guerrilla operation from the jungles of neighboring Thailand, was not likely to be deceived by such diplomatic niceties. Radio Peking made the Communist position all too clear: "The Malayan people's struggle against imperialism has not ended...
...ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China for anyone who wants to go) has done an effective job of combatting the Reds in Singapore. But if Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese become Malayan citizens, the Malays would be a minority in their own country. "It is not our intention to place a barrier at the Singapore causeway," says Abdul Rahman, adding hastily "until we have worked this question...
...second man on the list got the necessary majority. Malaya's new ruler will be Tuanku Abdul Rahman, of the Malayan state of Negri Sembilan. This is sure to cause endless confusion, because the present Chief Minister of the Federation of Malaya is also named Abdul Rahman, and will continue in office as Prime Minister after independence. The name is a common one in Malaya, and they are not related. When both were law students in London, friends had difficulty with their honorifics-the newly elected Paramount Ruler is Tuanku (applied only to rulers and sometimes their eldest sons...
...recently as 30 years ago, once powerful Brunei was a starving and disease-ridden nation of benighted tribesmen and headhunters, with a yearly income of only $80,000. At that time engineers from the British Malayan Petroleum Co., a Shell associate, were busy sinking exploratory shafts into what was to be the richest oilfield in the Commonwealth...
...billions of dollars to shore up shaky banks, railroads and other key institutions. Its Depression-fighting mission accomplished, RFC lived on in World War II as the Government's most powerful and versatile financial weapon. When it became obvious that Japanese aggression would cut off the U.S. from Malayan natural-rubber supplies, RFC set up and operated the nation's huge synthetic-rubber program. It organized stockpiling of strategic materials and pre-emptive buying to keep them out of the hands of the Axis. When President Franklin Roosevelt's goal of 50,000 planes a year appeared...