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Fate Accompli. In Southampton, England, 21-year-old Pakhar Singh told army recruiters that he had hitchhiked 12,000 miles from Malaya through India, Afghanistan, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy, Switzerland and France to join the British army because he wanted "to see the world...
...Shut the door, they're coming through the window; shut the window, they're coming through the door; oh, gee, now they're coming through the floor!" This children's jingle could be the theme song for Malaya's long struggle against Communist penetration. Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, by means of amnesties, bribes and force of arms, has cleared the jungle of the guerrilla bands of Red Boss Chin Peng. By sternly refusing recognition to Red China, he has kept Malaya free of Mao Tse-tung's swarming diplomatic and cultural missions. Last...
...This is the basis of a complicated but well-drawn plot in which Novelist McMinnies demonstrates that she knows her way around Eastern Europe as well as her first book, The Flying Fox (TIME, March 11, 1957) showed that she could make her way through the simpler jungles of Malaya...
...Backbenchers in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory Party muttered that Britain's liberal Governor on Cyprus, Sir Hugh Foot, should be replaced by a military Governor-someone like stern Sir Gerald Templer, who used such collective-punishment measures as cutting the rice ration of villagers in Malaya to make them inform on Communists...
...makes it plain in his book that there is no place for naive, warmhearted U.S. do-gooders in cold-war country. True to his Gallic instincts, he makes his American boob a woman. Patricia is the wife of a Frenchman who expertly runs a rubber plantation in Malaya, not far from Singapore. He married her during a leave in the U.S. and loves her dearly, but while he sensibly oversees operations with a machine gun in hand, Patricia is convinced that love and decency are the real weapons needed to bring the Communist guerrillas to peace. When she practically adopts...