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...federation itself, but the neighboring autonomous state of Singapore, where Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew struggles to keep tenuous control over a noisy leftist opposition. To reinforce his moderates and keep Singapore out of the hands of the leftists, Lee has long sought to merge Singapore with stable Malaya. Until recently, Abdul Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution is to widen the federation to include the British-run territories...
...federation is the tail of a thrashing, turbulent continent. What happens in the vast north of Asia soon reverberates in Malaya. Though temporarily cowed, a few Communists still try to burrow their way into trade unions and political parties, waiting their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance...
...Indians. In two years the settlement has put 5,770 acres under cultivation, hopes to expand to 13,000. But often it takes seven years before a rubber tree yields rubber, so Bilut Valley will have seven lean years of waiting. But hopefully, the valley will then share in Malaya's years of plenty...
...Britain's giant Daily Mirror (circ. 4,593,263). She somehow managed to lose her clothing at least once a week, and she was so popular that the morale of the R.A.F. was said to rise and fall with her skirts. Minor victories from the Mediterranean to Malaya were attributed to the fact that Jane was unblushingly bare on a particular morning. After the war Jane continued to cavort across the pages of the Mirror, delighting demobbed servicemen who found that she looked as luscious at a suburban breakfast table as she had in an army mess hall...