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There is probably no finer house in Malaya than Bukit Serene (peaceful hill), the green-tiled granite palace of the Sultan of Johore. But the Sultan has never occupied Bukit Serene. Four years ago he was persuaded to let it indefinitely to Malcolm MacDonald, the British commissioner general in Southeast Asia, at a nominal rent-just enough to pay the wages of the palace's 37 gardeners...
Russell Reading Braddon, an artillery gunner with Australia's 8th Division, spent his 21st birthday with both feet in a grave. It was early 1942, and he had been captured by the Japanese as they slithered through Malaya like lizards, chewing up the paper-thin defenses of Britain's "naked island" fortress, Singapore. Singapore fell, but Gunner Braddon lived, not to fight but to write another day. The result is a gutty, scalp-raising account of the "war of capitulation" in Southeast Asia, and the best book of its kind since F. Spencer Chapman's The Jungle...
...Korean battleground which Dwight Eisenhower inspected last week is only one of three great battlegrounds in Asia. The other two are Indo-China and Malaya. In none of them has there been a formal declaration of belligerency, yet in all three, the democratic allies currently have 1,230,000 men pitted in hot war against the Communists...
...these, 800,000 are in Korea (350,000 Americans, 400,000 South Koreans, 50,000 from 15 other U.N. nations). In Indo-China, there are 100,000 French and colonial troops, 20,000 sailors and airmen, 200,000 Vietnamese. In Malaya, there are 35,000 British and colonial army regulars, 25,000 fully trained Malay police and 50,000 special constables...
Korea is stalemated; the situation in Indo-China is worsening. Only in Malaya is the situation improving...