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...quiet aftermath of peace, Codner married, finished his studies in colonial administration at Oxford, and put in for service in Malaya, the place where he was born (son of a British rubber planter). It was an assignment for an adventurer-a job as assistant district officer in charge of 20,000 Malayans and Chinese in Tanjong Malim. The area was a hot spot in the interminable war between Britain and the Malayan Communists. Codner, often the hunter, could also be what he liked to be-one of the hunted. The village he worked in was ringed with barbed wire...
...Have Some Guts." When Malaya's new British high commissioner, tough little General Sir Gerald Templer, heard the news, he sped to the barbed-wire village in his armored car, assembled 300 village elders in a school auditorium, and meted out punishment. Tanjong Malim had long been a supply and information depot for the Red guerrillas, he said. "It does not amuse me to punish innocent people," snapped Templer, "but many among you are not innocent. You have information which you are too cowardly to give . . . Have some guts and shoulder the responsibility of citizenship." Templer slapped...
...move would leave Australia without first-line air defense at home: two of its squadrons are now in Malaya, two others in Korea. But Australia has moved forward since its World War II days, when defense forces were split into two groups-volunteers who fought abroad, conscripts for home defense. Now all of Australia's defense forces must serve wherever the government sends them-and the government's policy is to meet threats before they directly menace Australia's shores...
...coalition put up a speaker whose war record entitled him to talk "in the same fashion. Interior Minister W. S. Kent Hughes, 56, fought in Gallipoli and Palestine in World War I, was a Rhodes scholar and an Olympic hurdler between wars, and in World War II fought in Malaya as a staff officer of the 8th division. Captured at the same time as Downer, he also spent 3½ years in Japanese prison camps. Said Kent Hughes in a dramatic and emotional speech: "Only those who have passed along the purgatorial path of ill-treatment, murder, lashings, and every...
...charge: aiding & abetting corrupt practices during Britain's last election. Just before the election, the Times and other papers had carried, as an advertisement, a special report to stockholders by a group of British-Malayan tin companies which concluded: "The nation, let alone your valuable companies in Malaya, cannot survive if the worm of Socialism is permitted to continue...