Word: malayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shopping, to friends for a drink. Cars drew up to the Raffles Hotel and disgorged their passengers in time for the daily tea dance. Outside a cinema people lined up to see Joel McCrea and Ellen Drew in Reaching for the Sun. Eric Davis, director of the Malayan Broadcasting Corp., cracked open a letter from a gramophone concern, read that a certain tune "is unavailable for broadcast without special permission of Messrs. Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse...
Singapore's defenders knew the stakes. If they should fail all United Nations bases from Suez to Pearl Harbor would be in hazard. Japan's Malayan forces would be free to attack Java, Burma, perhaps Australia. With evacuation almost impossible, it would deal a heavy blow in manpower. Some 60,000 British troops were on the island. And it would give Japan a free passage to the Indian Ocean and the Bay of Bengal. Knowing these things Singapore's defenders fought bravely and well, but bravery was not enough...
...Japanese exploitation of the resources of the Malayan Peninsula will probably not be as difficult as some people have predicted," Steiger said. "Their Chinese occupation has been notoriously unsuccessful in the majority of cases, but the Chinese knew they were fighting their own battle and they have continued effective resistance and sabotage after military defeat...
...Tokyo radio said--"Singapore City reverted to its role of frontier down in the final phase of the Malayan campaign. Its streets ran with blood and its tropical calm was shattered by the travelling roar of rifle, machine gun and artillery fire as Japanese forces ran the British defenders out of the city in desperate street fighting...
...they knew that the improvising invaders, having made landings all the way down the Malayan coast, would try night landings on the fringes of Singapore Island...