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16. Mustapha Hussain, Malay nationalism before Umno: the memoirs of Mustapha Hussain, translated by Insun Mustapha and edited by Jomo K. S. (Kuala Lumpur, 2005), pp. 318–19.
17. We have here drawn on Yong, The Indonesian revolution and the Singapore connection, ch. 3.
18. Khatijah Sidek, Memoirs of Khatijah Sidek: Puteri Kesateria Bangsa (Kuala Lumpur, 2001 [1960]), pp. 71–2.
19. Firdaus Haji Abdullah, Radical Malay politics: its origins and early development (Petaling Jaya, 1985), pp. 52–3.
20. Ahmad Boestamam (trans. William R. Roff), Carving the path to the summit (Athens, OH, 1979), p. 40. We are also grateful to Dr Syed Husin Ali for his recollections. For Bose’s influence on Boestamam, see A. J. Stockwell, British policy and Malay politics during the Malayan Union experiment, 1945–1948 (Kuala Lumpur, 1979), p. 46.
21. Shamsiah Fakeh, Memoir Shamsiah Fakeh: dari AWAS ke Rejimen Ke-10 (Bangi, 2004), pp. 34–3; MSS/PIJ, 15 July 1946.
22. Farish A Noor, Islam embedded: the historical development of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS (1951–2003), vol. I (Kuala Lumpur, 2004), pp. 113–16.
23. ‘Temubual dengan Saudara Abdullah C. D., tokoh nasional tanahair kita’, an interview which appeared in the publication Suluh Rakyat in 1988.
24. Han Suyin, ‘An outline of Malayan Chinese literature’, Eastern Horizon, 3, 6 (June, 1964), pp. 6–16; My house has two doors (London, 1980), p. 71.
25. ‘Fu-sheng’, ‘A new understanding is indispensable to the Malayan Overseas Chinese’, New Democracy, 9 December, 1945.
26. Victor Purcell, ‘Malaya’s Political Climate VII: 12 December 1945–7 January 1946’, WO203/5302, TNA.
27. ‘Pa-Jen’ [Hu Yuzhi], ‘The emancipation of the Chinese intelligentsia in Malaya’, Feng Hsia, 21 January 1946.
28. Speech by Hu Yu-chih [Hu Yuzhi], ‘Twofold mission of the democratic movement’, Min Sheng Pau, 12 October 1945.
29. T. J. Danaraj, Japanese invasion of Malaya and Singapore, memoirs of a doctor (Kuala Lumpur, 1990), pp. 153–4.
30. Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore story (Singapore, 1998), pp. 89, 138.
31. Yeo Kim Wah, Political development in Singapore, 1945–55 (Singapore, 1973), pp. 88–98.
32. ‘The Malayan Democratic Union manifesto’, in Charles Gamba, The origins of trade unionism in Malaya (Singapore, 1960), pp. 433–7.
33. Lim Hong Bee, Born into war: autobiography of a barefoot colonial boy who grew up to face the challenge of the modern world (London, 1994), p. 373.
34. Charles B. McLane, Soviet strategies in Southeast Asia: an exploration of eastern policy under Lenin and Stalin (Princeton, 1966), pp. 308, 318.
35. ‘A manifesto to the people of different races for the realisation of democratic policies, issued by the Central Executive Committee of the Malayan Communist Party on 5 February, 1946’, New Democracy, 8 February 1946.
36. Purcell, ‘Malaya’s Political Climate VII’.
37. Chin Peng, My side of history (Singapore, 2004), pp. 157–8.
38. McLane, Soviet strategies in Southeast Asia, pp. 310–12. McLane was one of the few scholars to be given access to the Special Branch’s four-volume, Basic paper on the Malayan Communist Party (1950).
39. Min Sheng Pau, 8 March 1946.
40. Sin Chew Jit Poh, 18 January 1946.
41. Manicasothy Saravanamuttu, The Sara saga (Singapore, n.d. [1969]), p. 132; New Democracy, 29 January 1946.
42. René Onraet to Hone, 6 March 1946, CO537/1579.
43. P. A. B. McKerron, ‘Minute of the meeting of the local civil labour employment committee, Fort Canning, 5 January 1946’, BMA/DEPT/2/4, ANM.
44. Diary 29 January 1946 to 1 February 1946, in Philip Ziegler (ed.), Personal diary of Admiral the Lord Mountbatten: Supreme Allied Commander, South-East Asia, 1943–1946 (London, 1988), p. 289.
45. ‘SAC’s 316th Meeting’, 9 February