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...long tons-imported from Indonesia, Siam and Indo-China for processing in Singapore plants. At the beginning of 1950, rubber was selling for a little over 17? a pound. Then the price began to rise furiously, hit a high around 80/ a pound. The buyers: U.S.A. (35% of Malayan production), Britain, Europe, Red China (up 600% from 1949) the Soviet Union and European satellites (up 28% from...
...government is bringing along natives as No. 2 men in all departments. By Oriental standards education is already advanced (literacy is around 40%), and big school-building programs are afoot. On my way out to see Mac-Donald at "Bukit Serene," three miles from Johore Bahru, the Malayan taxi driver said: "If we were going five miles, I would have to ask you to lie down on the floor. The bandits keep watch at five miles. If they saw you, then at seven miles they would shoot at us. I think they telephone ahead." The strange thing about all this...
Should Indo-China fall, the neighboring countries would be untenable against the Reds. Siam, a happy, well-fed land whose ill-equipped army (30,000 men) and relaxed government could not withstand aggression. Malaya, where Malayan and crack British forces (85,000 men) have been trying for more than two years to finish off an estimated 3,000 Red guerrillas, is a baffling headache to the British. Burma has managed (more or less) to subdue its gun-toting Communists and the tough Karen rebels, but the country is still highly unstable. Fall of these countries in turn would directly menace...
Open the Gates. Suppose a truly Christ-like figure were to appear in a hellish Malayan prison camp such as Panchor. The thought has never for a moment occurred to Chaplain Choyce. He is known to the officers and men as "the Padre with-the Modern Approach." .Bustling with professional cheerfulness, he has a pat formula for every distress and a manly chin-up sermon for every misery, but he is about as spiritual as an auctioneer. And then he meets Andros, a soldier whose inability, or unwillingness, to identify himself is taken by the British medics behind the barbed...
...hope of exterminating them in Hawaii; the flies are too firmly dug in. But the entomologists hope to reduce the fly population and thus reduce likelihood of an invasion of the U.S. mainland. One line of attack is to look for the flies' insect enemies. A Malayan wasp is the best fighter found so far, but it has not yet proved effective in Hawaii...