• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

72. Yoji Akashi, ‘Lai Teck, Secretary General of the Malayan Communist Party, 1939–1947’, Journal of the South Seas Society, 49 (1994), pp. 57–103; Chin Peng, My side of history, p. 159; Lim Cheng Leng, The story of a psy-warrior: Tan Sri Dr C. C. Too (Batu Caves, 2000), pp. 113–25.

73. ‘Malayan Communist Party policy’, supplement no. 9 to MSS/PIJ, 31 July 1948.

74. Michael Stenson, The 1948 Communist revolt in Malaya: a note on historical sources and interpretation with a Reply by Gerald de Cruz (Singapore, 1971), p. 29–30.

75. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 41; ‘Malayan Communist Party Affairs 25 April 1984 to 26 June 1948’, Appendix A to MSS/PIJ, 30 June 1948.

76. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 40.

77. Malayan Security Service, ‘Report on BMA Period’, 3 April 1946, SNA; Leon Comber, ‘The Malayan Security Service (1945–1948)’;Intelligence and National Security, 18, 3 (2003), pp. 128–53.

78. Robert Cribb, ‘Opium and the Indonesian revolution’, Modern Asian Studies, 22, 4 (1988), pp. 710–22; Young Mun Cheong, The Indonesian revolution and the Singapore connection, 1945–1949 (Singapore, 2003), pp. 101–37.

79. Onn to Gent, 17 February 1947, in Stockwell, British documents: Malaya, part I, p. 294.

80. Majlis, 2 April 1946.

81. ‘Report on UMNO General Assembly, 10–12 January 1947’, in Gent to Creech Jones 27 January 1947, Stockwell, British documents: Malaya, part I, pp. 292–3.

82. Ahmad Boestamam (trans. William R. Roff), Carving the path to the summit (Athens, OH, 1979), pp. 82–5. 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. 330–31.

83. Quoted in 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.

84. Hussain, Malay nationalism before Umno, pp. 334–9.

85. Shamsiah Fakeh, Memoir Shamsiah Fakeh: dari AWAS ke Rejimen Ke-10 (Bangi, 2004), pp. 40–45.

86. Khatijah Sidek, Memoirs of Khatijah Sidek: Puteri Kesateria Bangsa (Kuala Lumpur, 2001 [1960]), p. 160.

87. Malaya Tribune, 17 March 1947; Wazir Jahan Karim, Women and culture: between Malay adat and Islam (Boulder, 1992), pp. 96–100.

88. Boestamam, Carving the path to the summit, pp. 61–2; MSS/PIJ, 30 April 1947.

89. MSS/PIJ, 31 March 1947; Gent to Creech Jones, 24 February 1947, CO537/2151 TNA.

90. Utusan Melayu, 14 August 1947.

91. This pamphlet has recently been republished, in facsimile form, in Ahmad Boestamam, Memoir Ahmad Boestamam: merdeka dengan darah dalam api (Bangi, 2004).

92. Malaya Tribune, 20 March and 21 March 1947; Firdaus Haji Abdullah, Radical Malay politics: its origins and early development (Petaling Jaya, 1985), pp. 98–101.

93. Boestamam, Carving the path to the summit, p. 90–91.

94. A. J. Stockwell, British policy and Malay politics during the Malayan Union experiment, 1945–1948 (Kuala Lumpur, 1979), pp. 149–50.

95. ‘Sabilu’llah and invulnerability’, supplement to MSS/PIJ, 15 June 1947.

96. ‘Activities of the organisation known as API for the information of the Secretary of State’, enclosure to Gent to Creech Jones, 1 July 1947, CO537/2151, TNA.

97. Boestamam, Carving the path to the summit, p. 126.

98. ‘Annual Medical Report, 1949’, SUK Tr/118/50.

99. ‘Infant mortality rates per 1000 births’, 7 May 1949, FS/13157/47, ANM.

100. ‘Annual Report on the social and economic progress of the people of Kelantan for the year 1947’, FS/9358/48, ANM.

101. Ahmed Tajuddin, ‘Economic survey of the padi planters in Krian South’, 22 November 1946, Coop/1045/46, ANM.

102. Mahathir bin Mohamad, The early years, 1947–1972 (Kuala Lumpur, 1995), p. 59.

103. For example, Utusan Malaya, 24 November 1947.

104. See enclosures in FS/2255/48, ANM.

105. Hussain, Malay nationalism before Umno, pp. 335–6.

106. Pelita Malaya, 6 April 1946.

107. Firdaus, Radical Malay politics, pp. 30–44.

108. Malaya Tribune, 2 June 1947.

109. ‘Malayan Communist Party Policy’, supplement no. 9 to MSS/PIJ,