During 1950, 4 men, all formerly prisoners of war in Malaya, were admitted to hospital in Queensland complaining mainly of malaise, loose stools and upper abdominal discomfort. All had hepatomegaly and impairment of liver function shown by high levels of serum globulin, serum bilirubin and ...
In Malaya in 1950 it took 200,000 British, Australian and allied troops to defeat 5,000 Communist guerrillas. In Ireland over the 30-year course of ‘the troubles’ a total of 300,000 British troops were used to contain 10,000 IRA guerrillas. Closer to home, so the arm chair Boer war...
October 8Republican forces in Surabaya take Captain Huyer into custody. British troops in Padang, Medan, Palembang. Fighting escalates between Republican youths and foreigners. Dutch troops attack civilians. Malay Nationalist Party is founded in Malaya, with covert ties to the PKI in Indonesia. ...
913) through the advance of Japan into the Southern countries (British Malaya, Indochina, British-ruled Burma, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Thailand). The cartoon had previously depicted Japanese people teaching culture to the ignorant indigenous people of the Southern nations. After ...
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The Limits of Late-colonial Intervention: Labour policy and the development of trade unions in 1950s Malaya The nurture of a 'moderate' trade union movement during the 1950s was a key element in British strategy for defeating communist insurgency in colonial Southeast Asia, and has often been ...
British war films were coming thick and fast at this time, and several were about prisoners. Virginia McKenna played women taken prisoner in two films: Jack Lee’sA Town Like Alice(1956), based on Nevil Shute’s novel of a camp run by the Japanese in Malaya, and Lewis Gilbert’sCarve He...
“Operation Zipper,” a massive amphibious assault against the Japanese position in Malaya, an operation that would have dwarfed the D-Day landings. In response, the Japanese Commander of the Southwest Asian theater would have issued his promised order for the massacre of hundreds of thousands of...