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...Malayan jungle, for seven years a field of battle with Communist terrorists, was invaded by a strange new company last week. Instead of armored cars, mobile units rolled into the kampongs (villages) with films of hip-swinging dancing girls to draw the crowds; instead of riflemen, sweating, sport-shirted politicians arrived by bicycle, canoe and on foot over the jungle trails; instead of new orders and restrictions, catchy tunes and the magic word merdeka (independence) blared from truck-and boat-borne public-address systems; instead of police inter rogators, teams of European and Asian officials were passing out booklets...
...secretary of the biggest rubber planters' association in Malaya made out his name on the envelope, written in spidery English script. Inside, there was a long letter in Chinese characters. It had the look of Something important, and it was: after seven years of jungle war, the Malayan Communists were suing for peace...
Similar letters, postmarked from Siam, also reached Malay and Chinese political leaders, asking for a "round table conference" in the jungle. Said Lieut. General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, director of the Operations Committee, last week: "This is the first really noticeable crack in the Malayan Communist Party." To the 35,000 police and 172,000 home guards, it seemed a vindication of long and dangerous duty. In the last four years they have reduced the number of terrorist incidents from a monthly total of 606 to 66, the number of terrorists at large from...
Reporter Dowling knew how to handle people. Stiff-backed General Templer almost managed a smile as he told him: "You are like me. I can handle you!" Cambodia's King Norodom was enchanted when Dowling did the rongeng, a Malayan dance, for him. But his basic technique, he used to say, was silence. "Sooner or later something always snaps in the other person. Someone has to talk...
...been well known in Singapore as an active anti-Communist student leader. Said the police, as they offered a record reward of 25,000 Straits dollars ($8,333) for finding the two unidentified youths who murdered him: "Lee was the victim of a political outrage typical of the Malayan Communist Party...