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...Singapore last week, the British took the longest step towards self-government in 136 years of colonial rule. They staged the island colony's first really representative general election. In steaming heat, the Chinese, Malayan, Indian, Eurasian and European people of polyglot Singapore (pop. 1,200,000) went to the polls, where six political parties contended for 25 seats in a new Legislative Assembly, the winner to form a Cabinet and take over Singapore's internal administration-subject only to the veto of the British colonial governor. Often trailed by as many as four interpreters speaking Singapore...
...steep tumble in coffee prices was balanced by an air of inflation in other commodity markets. Tension in the Far East touched off a wave of buying in tin, lead, zinc, rubber. Malayan tin rose 2¼? to 92? a lb., rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market...
...situation, according to Malaya's Lieut. General Sir Geoffrey Bourne, is "potentially nasty." The British are sending paratroop reinforcements to the rubber-rich colony, and last month decided to equip three Malayan airfields for jetbomber use. The Australians are training 1,200 infantrymen for jungle war, and last week the senior generals of both Australia and New Zealand inspected Malaya...
From these modest beginnings Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. has grown into a mammoth holding company with 165 subsidiaries, 66,000 stockholders and 93,000 employees. Its 61 factories (23 outside the United Kingdom) turn out golf balls, tennis balls, foam rubber, tires, tubes, 'raincoats; its Malayan rubber plantations (92,800 acres) are the biggest private landholdings in the British Commonwealth. With 1953 sales of $680 million (and a net of $14 million), Dunlop completely dominates the Commonwealth market for rubber goods. Dunlop, in fact, is often called a microcosm of the Empire...
...Malaya would do without Templer was anybody's guess. But the hard, lean soldier would not be forgotten. "Templer left his impression on the whole country," wrote a Malayan. "Perhaps he will be a legend in the kampongs. They will remember the spare, striding figure, the smile that lit the eyes...