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Except for the Negritos, the Filipinos are basically Malayan stock with a mixture of Caucasian and Mongolian. The U.S. Supreme Court once ruled that they are not Caucasians; the state of California has ruled that they are not Mongolians. The Filipinos' own smiling explanation: a god and goddess once inhabited the earth, got lonely and decided to create man. They fashioned a man out of clay and baked it in an oven, but it was overcooked and came out black. They tried another but it was undercooked and came out white. The third was cooked to a just-right...
...British spent two years rooting Communist terrorists out of Bahau, heart of the rubber country in the central Malayan state of Negri Sembilan. Then, mission presumably accomplished, they moved on, at the beginning of this year, to other trouble spots. Last month the Communists emerged from their jungle hideouts and ordered Bahau rubber workers to strike for a threefold wage increase. Flashing six-inch spikes and bayonets in the workers' faces, the Communists threatened to crucify strikebreakers on the rubber trees. As a warning, they chopped off the fingers of some trade unionists who turned up for work...
...London rubber firm, his plantation manager and nine policemen who were in his heavily guarded escort were ambushed and killed. Same day the Communists sabotaged the Singapore train 20 miles from Kuala Lumpur, killed five passengers and injured 20. Aboard the train was the Yang di-Pertuan Besar, Malayan ruler of Negri Sembilan. Said His Highness: "It was a terrifying experience." Loyal Negri Sembilan Malays, hitherto neutral, began honing their parangs (long knives) for anti-Communist action. The planters, under a new British general, Sir Robert Lockhart, are punching hard at the Communists. British score (since Oct. 1): 131 Reds...
Though he is a native New Yorker of Irish ancestry, his dark eyes, swarthy skin and gift for accents have kept him busiest playing Latin types. He has also appeared as an Englishman, an ape, an old woman, a Swede, a Negro, an Indian, a Japanese, a Malayan, a Chinese, a Pole. On Broadway, before he went to Hollywood, he once played a rabbi in the evening while rehearsing in the afternoon as a Greek gangster. On neither stage nor screen has Naish ever played an Irishman...
...week before. More seriously, "transferable sterling," which the British accept from European and other "soft currency" countries who cannot pay them in dollars, was selling in New York at $2.40, a discount of 14% on the official rate of $2.80. At this rate, slick continental operators could buy Malayan rubber or Australian wool (telling the British it was for their own account), then transship it straight to New York and undersell Britain's direct, dollar-earning sales. This "leak" in Britain's tight control on sterling-into-dollar exchange was a potent cause of sterling's devaluation...