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The Neutral Jungle. The basic fact about the war in Malaya is the jungle. "The 'thing that astonished me most," writes Colonel F. Spencer . Chapman, an Englishman who spent three years there in World War II behind the Japanese lines, "was the absolute straightness, the perfect symmetry of the...
Song of Terror. British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, who toured Kenya last month, assured the House of Commons that "we will free Kenya from fear." Yet fear still reigns, and what was once pooh-poohed as a "native" bushfire might easily engulf the richest colony in Britain's East...
The small oriental gentleman was late for his appointment. More than that he was frightened. This maze of steam pipes and empty trunks hardly seemed a fit place to meet the Secretary of Harvard University--and now he couldn't find his way back to open air.
Raftery recognized the "islands" for what they were-man-made crannogs, piles of stone ferried from the mainland by men of the New Stone Age and Late Bronze Age. Covered with a lattice of logs, they made a sturdy foundation for the lake dwellers' homes. In the peaty soil...
Brigadier Ritchie-Hook, brute symbol of ferocity and military leadership, stands at one extreme of Men at Arms. At the other is Captain Apthorpe, who stands for all that is most ridiculous, most pompous, most bumbling and yet most sympathetic in human nature. He has spent most of his life...