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46. Mountbatten to chiefs of staff, 11 February 1946, CO537/1579.
47. Khong Kim Hoong, Merdeka: British rule and the struggle for independence in Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, 1984), p. 60. See also, John Springhall, ‘Mountbatten versus the generals: British military rule of Singapore, 1945–46’, Journal of Contemporary History, 34, 4 (2001), pp. 335–52.
48. Mountbatten to Brazier, 9 March 1946, CO537/1579, TNA.
49. Mountbatten to Stanley, 26 March 1946, ibid.
50. Hone to Gater 13 March 1946, ibid.
51. Ralph Hone to F. S. V. Donnison, 25 March 1953, Hone Papers, RHO.
52. Hone to Gator, 2 April 1946, CO537/1579, TNA.
53. Victor Purcell, The memoirs of a Malayan official (London, 1965), pp. 353–6.
54. ‘Crisis in Malaya’, New Democracy, 21 February 1946.
55. Mountbatten to George Hall, 4 January 1946, in A. J. Stockwell (ed.), British documents on the End of Empire: Malaya, part I (London, 1995), p. 191.
56. Summarized by Hone to Chinese Consul, Singapore, 8 March 1946, CO537/1580, TNA.
57. Amy and Richard Haggard, ‘An account of the British Military Administration of Upper Perak, Malaya – 1945/46: being memories based on diaries and letters’, 4 April 2000, RCS, CUL.
58. James de Vere Allen, The Malayan Union (New Haven, 1967), pp. 34–6.
59. Sultan of Johore to G. H. Hall (Colonial Office), 15 February 1946, RCS, CUL.
60. Johore Malays to Sultan Ibrahim, 22 February 1946, Maxwell Papers, RCS, CUL.
61. George Maxwell, ‘The enigma of Ibrahim of Johore’, n.d., ibid.
62. For these debates see Ariffin Omar, Bangsa Melayu: Malay concepts of democracy and community, 1945–50 (Kuala Lumpur, 1993).
63. See the seminal essay by Kassim bin Ahmad, Characterization in Hikayat Hang Tuah: a general survey of character-portrayal and analysis and interpretation of the characters of Hang Tuah and Hang Jebat (Kuala Lumpur, 1966), p. 43.
64. John Coast, Recruit to revolution: adventure and politics in Indonesia (London, 1952), p. 41; Donna J. Amoroso, ‘Dangerous politics and the Malay nationalist movement, 1945–47,’ South East Asia Research, 6, 3 (1998), p. 259.
65. Quoted in Amoroso, ‘Dangerous politics’, p. 259.
66. O. W. Gilmour, With freedom to Singapore (London, 1950), p. 186.
67. Henry Barlow, Swettenham (Kuala Lumpur, 1995), p. 727.
68. ‘Notes of a discussion at the Colonial Office on 26 February 1946 on the White Paper on Malayan Union’, ibid.
69. The Times, 16 April 1946.
70. MacDonald to Hall, 21–22 June 1946, in Stockwell, British documents: Malaya, part I, pp. 252–5.
71. Pelita Malaya, 6 May 1946.
72. Firdaus Haji Abdullah, Radical Malay politics: its origins and early development (Petaling Jaya, 1985), pp. 82–4; Amoroso, ‘Dangerous politics’; Boestamam, Carving the path, p. 49.
73. Lt. Col. R. F. Tredgold, ‘Psychiatry in ALFSEA’, March 1946, WO222/1319, TNA.
74. ‘HMS Northway: minutes and findings of a Board of Enquiry’, 20 October 1945, ADM116/6422, TNA.
75. MSS/PIJ, 31 May 1947.
76. MSS/PIJ, 31 May 1946.
77. New Democracy, 30 January 1946.
78. David Duncan, Mutiny in the RAF: the Air Force Strikes of 1946, The Socialist History Society, Occasional Papers Series, no. 8, London, 1998.
79. R. D. Heanly, ‘Final Report on SIB investigation of RAF Mutinies in India’, 21 May, 1946; Tom Driberg to William Attwood, 11 April 1946; minute 23 July 1946, AIR20/11516, TNA.
80. The Times, 14 August 1946.
81. The Times, 11 October 1946.
82. Stopford to Roberts, 9 October 1946, WO203/6249; Roberts to Stopford to Roberts 11 October 1946, WO203/6249; TNA.
83. Montgomery to All Commanders at Home and Overseas, 15 October 1946, WO32/16169, TNA.
84. Brigadier K. T. Darling to Montgomery, 24 May 1946, WO32/16169, TNA.
85. Quoted in Robert H. Ahrenfeldt, Psychiatry in the British army in the Second World War (London, 1950), p. 210.
86. Brian Aldiss, The twinkling of an eye, or my life as an Englishman (London, 1998), p. 201.
87. Northern Star, 6 May 1946; Straits Echo, 13 May 1946.
88. G. B. Folliot, OSPC Island, memorandum, 3 January 1947, FO371/69629, TNA; Sunday Gazette, 17 February 1946.
89.