Red Terrorism in Malaya

Archive Report

British Campaign Against Red Guerillas

New Effort to Extinguish Communist Terror

Communist terrorism still nourishes in Malaya after four years of British effort to stamp it out. From scattered camps in the Malayan jungle, Red guerillas continue to wage an active campaign to disrupt the economy and retard political development of Britain's last major colonial dependency in South Asia. In the event that Chinese Communist armies should invade Southeast Asia through Indo-China, the guerillas in the strategic Malay peninsula would constitute a dangerous fifth column in the rear of anti-Communist defenses.

Recognizing the inadequacy of an indeterminate holding operation, the Churchill government has undertaken comprehensive efforts to step up the fight against the terrorists and to improve those Malayan political, economic, and social conditions which are sources ...

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