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...that decision will be made in Moscow, not in Washington. And since the U.S. insists on minimizing Asia, why not (Stalin may reason) pick off the rest of Asia, starting with Korea, continuing with Indo-China, gobbling up Malaya and Indonesia, meanwhile rattling the saber in Europe to distract American effort...
From Singapore, Manfred Gottfried, chief of foreign correspondents for TIME & LIFE, cabled this appraisal of the situation in Malaya...
...Malaya last week communist guerrillas still sowed death & destruction. Forty thousand British troops and a third of the Malaya Federation's budget were needed to hold down 5,000 jungle-wise Red terrorists. Yet Red destruction was more than matched by anti-Red construction. Rubber, tin and rice production stood at a record peak. More significant, the country's long antagonistic racial groups, the Malays and the Chinese, were closing ranks toward national unity...
Should Indo-China fall, the neighboring countries would be untenable against the Reds. Siam, a happy, well-fed land whose ill-equipped army (30,000 men) and relaxed government could not withstand aggression. Malaya, where Malayan and crack British forces (85,000 men) have been trying for more than two years to finish off an estimated 3,000 Red guerrillas, is a baffling headache to the British. Burma has managed (more or less) to subdue its gun-toting Communists and the tough Karen rebels, but the country is still highly unstable. Fall of these countries in turn would directly menace...
Bunche combined his teaching career with study (Ph.D. Harvard 1934) and travel in England, Africa, Malaya and Indonesia, won a reputation as a "walking colonial institute." With the outbreak of World War II he was grabbed off by O.S.S., became chief of the agency's Africa section. In 1944 he left O.S.S. for the State Department, resigned three years later to join...