Word: malayans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malayan rubber was not lost to the U.S. Last week it was learned that a small trickle has begun to come to U.S. ports once more-via Japan and Russia. Tokyo, saddled with a mountainous surplus, sells it to the Soviet Union; Russia again trades it for U.S. war goods which she needs to fight Japan's allies in Europe. Some day Malayan rubber from Japan might roll again down Singapore's wide streets under the U.S. flag. Meanwhile, the world had another example of a paradox of international war and commerce: how to trade, at second hand...
According to Domei's Malayan correspondent: Cherry trees transplanted ten years ago from Japan to a cool retreat near Singapore never bloomed in the shadow of the Union Jack. But this year, promptly on Kigensetsu (Japanese Empire Day) all the little cherry trees burst into bloom. The natives were said to be impressed...
...people in peacetime, India during World War II no longer can count on the twelve million tons of rice formerly imported (1937-38) from Burma, Thailand and Indo-China. Almost two million Indian soldiers are eating more than ever before; half a million Burmese and Malayan refugees have to be fed, as do American and Chinese troops...
...perfectly planned, perfectly executed Malayan campaign that ended at Singapore, the Japanese used fewer than 75,000 jungle fighters against 92,000 British troops who were pitifully untrained for such warfare. Jap casualties were probably fewer than...
...Admiral Keyes, "with defending Rutland when he seemed to be hunting with the hounds and running with the fox. But his services might have been of immediate value. He could have told what the Repulse and the Prince of Wales were likely to expect when they got into those [Malayan] waters-a superior fleet and an enormous air force." There was only one living Briton, he reminded the Houses, who could wear an Albert Medal, First Class, awarded him in World War I. That Briton was ex-Flight Commander Rutland...