Word: malayans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...peace, Codner married, finished his studies in colonial administration at Oxford, and put in for service in Malaya, the place where he was born (son of a British rubber planter). It was an assignment for an adventurer-a job as assistant district officer in charge of 20,000 Malayans and Chinese in Tanjong Malim. The area was a hot spot in the interminable war between Britain and the Malayan Communists. Codner, often the hunter, could also be what he liked to be-one of the hunted. The village he worked in was ringed with barbed wire, but Codner...
...last week found itself a defendant in the criminal dock at Old Bailey. The charge: aiding & abetting corrupt practices during Britain's last election. Just before the election, the Times and other papers had carried, as an advertisement, a special report to stockholders by a group of British-Malayan tin companies which concluded: "The nation, let alone your valuable companies in Malaya, cannot survive if the worm of Socialism is permitted to continue...
...Materials..Truman and Churchill agreed on an exchange of U.S. steel for Malayan tin (see BUSINESS...
...four years, a handful of Communist-led bandits lurking in Malaya's jungles have terrorized the country, kept an army of British regulars and natives (140,000 at present) on the alert, and cost the government some $140 million a year. The cost to the world in lost Malayan rubber and tin may have been far more...
Britain will get steel-1,000,000 tons of it-in return for 20,000 tons of Malayan tin ore and 55 million pounds of Canadian aluminum. The U.S. will buy the tin outright at $1.18 a pound, f.o.b. Singapore. The aluminum will be sold by Canada*with the understanding that the same quantity will be sold back by mid-1953, when U.S. plants will have expanded enough to ease the present shortage...