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Great Britain announced that it would boost its defense budget by 45%, spending more than $9.5 billion in the next three years. At present, one of Britain's five divisions is tied down fighting Communists in Malaya, two are on garrison duty in Hong Kong and North Africa. Britain has a reserve of 4,000,000 trained or partially trained men, but they have virtually no equipment. The British army is underpaid, but so far the Labor government has not been able to bring itself to grant a pay raise which would spur enlistments-it might make trade unionists...
...women in uniform, counting the regular army, navy and air force, plus draftees and territorials. But the army is scattered far & wide: two understrength divisions in Germany, a brigade in Austria and one in Trieste, three divisions spread over the Middle and Far East, a Gurkha division in Malaya, about 60,000 other "colonial" troops in Africa, Malta...
...descent from the triumph of V-J Day to the day of desperation at Suwon had been dizzyingly swift. Communist imperialism began its march through Asia before V-J Day. It used the most mobile of weapons, political agitation and ruthless organization. In Korea-as in China, Indo-China, Malaya and Burma-native Communists, shouting slogans of freedom and independence, were forging for their people heavier chains of slavery than even Asia had ever known...
...over Asia, leaders' words rang with a new sense of clear purpose. The most interesting reaction came from India. Its newspapers freely predicted that India's U.N. delegate would not vote for the U.S. resolution on Korea. Then Pandit Nehru came home from a trip to Indonesia, Malaya, Burma. For months he had been preaching "neutrality" in the struggle between Communism and the West. What he had seen in other lands, plus the U.S. action on Korea, changed his mind. He amazed his countrymen and the world by lining India up on the side...
...industrial revival, soil conservation is breaking out all over, the cattle trade is expanding, new stores are sprouting like mushrooms. The only thing that saves the book from absurdity is Novelist Shute's lively discernment about people & places. The villagers who shelter Jean in Japanese-occupied Malaya are real farmers in a real village. The London office of Jean's solicitor is perfectly authentic, and in Australia the reader can almost hear her husband's cattle moo. But Jean is as unconvincing as a Horatio Alger hero...