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...Malaya: Despite a nine-year-old Communist uprising, Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, a wealthy Malayan Moslem prince, announced that his government would cut British forces in Malaya by 50% and start building its own army after the Federation (pop. 6,200,000) achieves independence next August...
...show that in Malaya...
Thus the gin-bashing cronies of Milton Hall, hero of this brilliant first novel, might have summarized his brief and dreadful career as a British colonial officer in Malaya. The story is set in the fictional district of Telebu. State of Mandore. a few hours by car from Singapore. To the usual tropical discomforts is added the barbed wire which confines the town within its perpetual state of siege; to the usual jungle noises is added the rumble of British 25-pounders as dispirited troops try to nose out Communist terrorists in the hills of the "vast sighing terrible peninsula...
...armies, he had moved unerringly into the black market up the Italian peninsula into Vienna, but eventually he seemed condemned to living off his wife in London. The need for propaganda ("You just pick it up as you go along, boy") takes him to a last chance in Malaya, where he is supposed to dress up the unprecedented local elections...
Author Mary McMinnies, herself a charter mem-sahib (as wife of a Foreign Service official in Malaya), has a cold Waugh eye and ear for colonial types. The U.S. reader, however, cutting his way through the alphabet jungles of British officialese, should know that D.O.M. does not stand for some esoteric military order but merely for Dirty Old Man. It is all a long way from W.M.B.-the White Man's Burden of the great, dead Kipling days...