Word: malayas
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...jeopardized another $35,000,000 a month in exports to the Allies, nearly equivalent losses of imports from Europe. To the U. S., Latin America is a great potential market for industrial products, a great potential source of needed raw materials (such as rubber, tin) whose usual sources (British Malaya, Dutch...
...also convoying Canadian troops, some U-boat commander lurked for big game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident that the wounded ship was heading for port when attacked; that her "blister" saved her, since only four men were killed...
Great Britain has most of Malaya, Burma, Sarawak, the other half of New Guinea, and Hong Kong...
...potentially troublesome Hindus. In the last war India sent some 1,338,620 men to battle areas, all paid for out of the Indian Treasury, not to mention the wealth and materials that poured toward London. By last week some detachments of Indian troops had been sent already to Malaya and Egypt at no expense to the British taxpayer...
...Guam. It would be a provocative gesture even if excused by Japan's alleged fortification of islands in the absorbed mandate groups (Caroline and Marshall)-and particularly when viewed in connection with the British desire to control Japan's approach to the Netherlands Indies and British Malaya (oil, coal, rubber, food). More provocative, Guam is only 1,356 miles from Yokohama...