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Thus, in the jungles of Malaya, was one Communist recently rendered "politically reliable" by his own comrades, the British army command in Malaya learned last week. There were other evidences of a widespread purge and toughening of the hard-pressed guerrilla forces. British High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer's firm drive against the Communists has apparently spread discontent and created waverers among the Communists. Over the past few weeks, some 40 suspect jungle fighters have been strangled, buried alive or beaten to death with rifle butts, according to British army sources. After a formal inquiry into the executions...
...faster Britain's empire has dwindled, the more precious the rest of it has become. The loss of the vast Sudan last year brought a hardening of British attitudes in Suez and Kenya. Communist revolt in Malaya made drastic action certain when other Reds made trouble in British Guiana. Not surprisingly, postwar Britain has turned to its colonies to 1) recoup its economy, and 2) restore its prestige. British Africa, with the bulk of the empire's area and population, gets top priority...
...rubber to the Soviet bloc. Explained British officials: Russia can get all the rubber it needs anyway from other sources, such as Indonesia, is not even buying all it might under the control quota (limited to Russia's estimated civilian needs), and the new gesture would help Malaya's sagging rubber trade. Sale of rubber is still banned to Communist China, Hong Kong, Macao and Tibet. But there will be nothing to prevent Malayan rubber from finding its way from, say, Vladivostok via a Manchurian tire factory to a Chinese truck outside Dienbienphu...
...title; in the women's division, former World Champion Tenley Albright, 18, took her third straight. ¶ In London, another U.S. girl, Judy Devlin, 18, won the All-England women's badminton title, considered the world championship. Men's winner, for the second straight year:Malaya's Eddie Choong. ¶ At Hallandale, Fla., a California-bred colt popped up as a serious contender for Kentucky Derby honors. Robert S. Lytle's Correlation, Champion Jockey Willie Shoemaker up, won the $146,250 Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park by a length from the Woodvale Farm...
...hopeful sign: the appointment of one of Britain's top policemen, Colonel Arthur Young, 46, to replace Kenya's retiring Police Commissioner Michael O'Rorke. Young, boss of the City of London's police, is the man who helped General Sir Gerald Templer reorganize Malaya's police. He considers it his job to build up "first of all respect, and then esteem" for Kenya's ill-trained, badly equipped and sometimes indiscriminately cruel 24,000-man national police force...