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...armored car, Adlai Stevenson invaded the green depths of Malaya's Red-infested jungle to visit the village of Bukit Lanjan and see a tribe of Sakai, roving aborigines. The friendly little people had been warned that a tuan besar (great master) from over the sea would visit them. And for their visitor they had a gift: a 6-ft. blowpipe (which native marksmen use with rifle accuracy at 25 yards) and a supply of nonpoisonous darts. Said the pleased visitor: "It's the most exciting thing that has happened to me." Would he like...
...said in an interview, "Non-violent resistance is in my opinion the only form of resistance which any morally responsible person can use against the forces he must fight." He continued, "I not only condemn the policies of Malan South Africa and of all colonial powers--of Britain in Malaya and South Africa, of France in Indo-China and Morocco--but I also say that besides being stupid they are singular by hopeless. They are going against invincible trends of history. These countries, after a few centuries of slumber are reawakening, and although Malan and others may slow them down...
...horrified," said Sir Evelyn Baring, Governor of Kenya, and vowed to seek out the murderers. Suspect No. 1 was scarfaced Dedam Kimathi, 30, the ex-schoolteacher who styles himself "General Russia" (TIME, Feb. 23). Kimathi's tactics, the police believe, are copied from those of Malaya's Communist guerrillas. His forces are growing as tens of thousands of Kukes, evicted by white farmers in the Rift Valley Highlands, pour into the overcrowded reserves...
...Malaya-Type War. With modern weapons, Kimathi's guerrillas could transform what began eight months ago as a minor "colonial incident" into a bloody colonial war. The British know it. This week they began airlifting two battalions of regulars from Britain to fight the Mau Mau. This would bring the total British force engaged in Kenya to 5,500 white regulars, some 4,000 King's African Riflemen, and every able-bodied white man in the Crown Colony, The regulars would be trained, said the Kenya government, for "Malaya-type jungle warfare...
...Communist jail in Hungary this week, a 48-year-old British businessman glumly contemplates ten more years' imprisonment ; in a red brick prison in Malaya, a 25-year-old girl guerrilla leader placidly weaves baskets. A month ago the Communists offered to free Edgar Sanders, who was accused of espionage in Hungary, if the British would free Lee Meng, who was doomed to hang for bearing arms against the British in Malaya's jungles. Since then, the Sultan of Perak commuted Lee Meng's sentence to life imprisonment, and Sanders' wife and three daughters raised their...