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...than police actions against the terrorists, and recent skirmishes showed that the Reds are short of arms. Such items, said General Templer, mark the turning point in Malaya's war. A possible reason for the decline: Moscow had ordered the Reds to drop terrorism, concentrate on winning the Malayan people...
...major headache for the West is its population. Roughly half of it (about 3,000,000) is Chinese. Relatively recent immigrants (most arrived during the last half-century), Malaya's Chinese are industrious and formidable trade competitors for the more easygoing Malays and East Indians. For that reason, Malayan lawmakers have blocked the Chinese from becoming citizens. Thus disfranchised, the mass of Chinese in Malaya have little patriotic interest in the country's future, and most of them tacitly support the guerrillas (almost all Chinese) whom a large British army has been doggedly fighting for three years...
Finally, the British proposed to give citizenship in the Federation of Malaya to some of the Chinese, e.g., those born in certain Malayan provinces, or those with one Malaya-born parent. By these standards, the British estimated, only about 350,000 Chinese would be eligible for citizenship. The Malays did not like the idea, but after months of negotiations, they finally agreed. When the bill became law, it brought a whopping surprise to Malaya...
...Chinese would only get a foot in the door; instead they were smack in the living room, i.e., they will have a major voice in government, escape trade restrictions on foreigners, etc. The British hope that they will also shoulder the duties of citizenship, including service in the Malayan army. But there was no doubt last week that, as one U.S. observer put it, "the federation got more than it had bargained...
...have heard from college professors who wanted it as a text in their classes, from high government officials, from religious organizations, and from hundreds of corporations, most of which distributed copies to their own employees or featured it in their company papers. And the chief engineer, Way & Works, Malayan Railway, Kuala Lumpur, who had read the article in TIME's Pacific Edition, asked for a list of books on the subject, which he wished to study "as intensively as possible" before embarking on a career as consultant to the managers of industrial firms in Australia...