Word: penang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ultimatum. In Penang, Straits Settlements, bookmakers vengefully threatened to go on strike unless the police quit arresting them...
...British Admiralty announced that a Japanese 10,000-ton, eight-inch-gun cruiser had been attacked by torpedo planes and finished by five British destroyers in the Malacca Strait off Penang, Malaya...
...insists, is "America's enemy for all time." Japan will never forgive defeat, and there will never be a "common ground of ethical beliefs" for the two countries. Consequently, America must take under her "full and unequivocal" administration such bases as Singapore, New Caledonia, Cam Ranh Bay, Penang. A "tradition of [American] political activity" must be created south of the Chinese coast ports...
...Penang the treasury was left intact with more than a quarter of a million dollars, and when the Japanese walked into Penang they simply threw a switch in the radio station and began broadcasting...
Refugees arrived in the U.S. from Malaya and immediately began cursing the British. Principal complaint: "The British ordered the evacuation of British women and children in Penang on Dec. 14 without notifying the 40 Americans there . . . that they were doing...