Word: malayas
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...Malaya is MacDonald's show window. British colonialism had developed it for trade, with incidental benefits to the natives, e.g., in transport and sanitation. There was limited concern for education; in 1948 two-thirds of Malaya's million children between six and twelve received no schooling at all. The color bar rankled. When the Japanese came, the Malay natives were largely apathetic; they had no sense of sharing the country with its British masters...
...another beleaguered island redoubt. Oyster-shaped, about twice the size of New Jersey, with 3,000,000 inhabitants, Hainan Island lies in the South China Sea, only 15 miles from the Red mainland. The Japanese used it as a training ground and springboard for their conquest of Indo-China, Malaya and Singapore. From Hainan last week TIME Correspondent Wilson Fielder reported...
Park, who covered Far Eastern affairs in his talk, gave the French sponsored government in Indo-China only an even chance of surviving against the Communists. A Communist overthrow in Indo-China might easily be followed by the setting up of similar regimes in Burma, Malaya, and Thailand. He viewed the Far East as the touchiest area facing our foreign policy and recommended long term economic aid such as experimental farms and demonstration factories...
Before Christmas Urriolagoitia offered to give tin producers who increased their exports a more favorable exchange rate for their dollar earnings. Such a measure was of small help: Malaya and Indonesia, with the advantage of currency devaluation, were selling high-grade tin at a price Bolivia could not continue to meet. Last week the President appointed an Emergency Economic Committee to report on possible fiscal expedients...
...From Day to Day, a grim report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle Is Neutral, an expertly written story of his life as a guerrilla soldier in Japanese-held Malaya. Detractors and worshipers of F.D.R. took a relative breather. The opening of most of his personal papers to researchers next March probably meant an approaching rain of biographical books: John Gunther's inside F.D.R. had already been announced. But only the President's wife and his secretary...