Word: malayas
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Kuala Lampur, Malaya...
...City Divided. Expecting to stop the Japanese at the frontiers of Siam, British commanders in Malaya had never seen fit to fortify the island city of Singapore. Only when the Japanese began their inexorable push down the Malay Peninsula did Winston Churchill learn to his amazement that the island was barely defended to its north, and later bitterly recalled: "I ought to have known, and I ought to have been told, and I ought to have asked...
...consignment of South African hardboard, forcing its return to the manufacturers; three weeks ago a shipment of tires met the same fate. The Sudan instituted a formal boycott, forcing cancellation of $250,000 worth of contracts for South African asbestos piping and glass products. Last week Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman banned all trading with South Africa as of Aug. 1, declared "economic war" on South Africa until she handles her racial problems in "a humane...
...Heard cheering statistics on the march of world Baptism. Since the London conference five years ago, the World Alliance has added nine member churches from five countries-India, Honduras, Malaya, Formosa and Lebanon-and total mem bership has risen 16%, from 20,000,000 to 23,176,373, including a 35% increase in Latin America. Some 14,000 Baptist missionaries are making converts at the rate of 500,000 a year...
...Burma and Malaya have wiped out practically all the Communist revolutionaries that had disrupted orderly society...