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...Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house. Then England's Henry Wickham smuggled rubber tree seeds to London's Kew Gardens and on to the Far East, where efficient plantations broke Brazil's monopoly. Now Brazil buys Malayan rubber...
...Philippine Women's University in 1957, the troupe has an active repertory of some 40 folk dances practiced in all areas of the Philippines, from the mountain villages of the north to the Moslem country of the south. The dances were as varied as the Arabic, Malayan and Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points...
...much talk about differences of race, religion and class rather than about our similarities," appealed to citizens of Malay, Chinese and Indian stock "to sink our differences and speak about what is good for the country as a whole." His political rivals had narrower aims. The Pan-Malayan Islamic Party dreams of bringing Malaya into a "Greater Indonesia." Two small leftist parties formed a Socialist front and advocated the expropriation of all foreign holdings in the nation...
Unwinding his long legs, lanky (6 ft. 6 in.) Lennox-Boyd seemed even more self-assured than usual. "I do not believe that this will go down as a squalid Parliament," he said, and proceeded to tick off as Colonial Office accomplishments the -independence of Ghana and the Malayan Federation, the coming independence of Nigeria and the West Indies. Coolly eyeing Bevan, Lennox-Boyd said he was prepared to match this against any record Parliament might make in the future, "if ever, which is most unlikely, the desiccated calculating machine on his right [Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell] formed an administration...
Switching the scene to the Asian continent, Lokman Musa, Malayan Minister of Education, discussed his country's fight against the Communists, whose forces have now been pushed back to the jungles and to rural communities. Their pretext of opposing colonialism, while the country has achieved independence, and their rejection of amnesty offers have shown the people the obvious failure of the Party, he said...