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...their posts. He pleaded with Whitehall for more troops, built up the native army from four to six battalions, and launched a vast resettlement scheme to separate the Communists from their sources of supply. His men razed whole villages for aiding the Reds and penned up 120,000-Malayan Chinese. He constantly left his snug headquarters at Kuala Lumpur to roam the jungles in his car, his official red-striped pennant a conspicuous target for snipers. He became, as he intended, a symbol of British determination and doggedness...
...China will think long & hard before plunging into another such military venture as Korea, her expansionist activities in Asia are obviously far from over. Red China's leaders are still hailing the "victories" of the Vietnamese over the French in Indo-China. Red propaganda still shouts support of Malayan terrorists and Filipino Huks. "The Chinese revolution is far from complete," screamed No. 2 Red Liu Shao-chi, in a rousing speech to 40,000 in Peking this week. "China's Taiwan [Formosa] has not yet been liberated...
Rubber was only one of many commodities which were sliding down last week from their price peaks. Malayan tin dropped to $1.14½ a lb.-a 41% slump in four months-because the Reconstruction Finance Corp., buyer of all U.S. tin, had stopped buying. It is selling its stockpiled tin to U.S. users at $1.06 a lb. RFC Administrator W. Stuart Symington hinted last week that world prices have dropped about enough and the U.S. might soon start buying again. This would be a big relief to some U.S. State Department officials, who are worried that Symington...
...soprano by a Chinese cabaret songstress named Hue Lee, enjoyed a modest popularity. By last week Mei Kuei's old Chinese friends would have scarcely recognized it. The Chinese lyrics had been uprooted; the new ones told the touching story of a Tommy's farewell to his Malayan sweetheart. As Rose, Rose, I Love You, the song stood No. 2 on Britain's hit parade...
...wrote at different times for each of the magazine's four sections (Home, Foreign, American and Business World), and supplied one or more articles for each issue. His research and writing included, among other things, reports on the Malayan rubber supply, the British electoral system, the Argentine-induced meat shortage, and the troubles of the Long Island Rail Road. He did a "leader" on the money fight between the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve...