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78. Philip Hoalim, The Malayan Democratic Union: Singapore’s first democratic political party (Singapore, 1973), pp. 25–6.
79. Stockwell, ‘“A widespread and long-concocted plot to overthrow government in Malaya”’; Philip Deery, ‘The terminology of terrorism: Malaya, 1948–52’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 34, 2 (2003), pp. 231–47.
80. Andrew Gilmour, My role in the rehabilitation of Singapore, 1946–53 (Singapore, 1973), p. 29; Nicholas J. White, Business, government and the end of empire, Malaya, 1945–1957 (Kuala Lumpur, 1996), p. 116; J. D. Higham, minute, November 1948, CO537/4762, TNA.
81. J. P. Cross and Buddhiman Gurung, Gurkhas at war in their own words: the Gurkha experience, 1939 to the present (London, 2002), p. 178.
82. Sir Thomas Lloyd to Gimson and Newboult, 23 August 1948, CO537/3758, TNA.
83. Ashton Wade, A life on the line (Tunbridge Wells, 1988), pp. 147–9.
84. Cabinet Defence Committee meeting, 3 November 1948, CO537/3643, TNA.
85. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 124–33.
86. Yong and McKenna, The Kuomintang movement, p. 217.
87. Datuk Mohd Yusoff Hj. Ahmad, Decades of change (Malaysia – 1910s–1970s) (Kuala Lumpur, 1983), p. 341.
88. Brian Stewart, Smashing terrorism in the Malayan Emergency: the vital contribution of the police (Kuala Lumpur, 2004), pp. 189–90.
89. R. Cole, ‘It aint ’arf ’ot’, http://members.tripod.com/Askari–MB/id47.htm.
90. Norman Cleaveland, Bang! Bang! in Ampang (San Pedro, CA, 1973) pp. 55–63.
91. Stewart, Smashing terrorism in the Malayan Emergency, pp. 49–50.
92. John Strawson, A history of the SAS Regiment (London, 1984), p. 160.
93. ‘Planters in Malaya’, The Times, 9 October 1951.
94. The Times, 9 August 1948.
95. Chui Kwei-chiang, The response of the Malayan Chinese to political and military developments in China, 1945–9 (Singapore, 1977), pp. 71–2; Richard Stubbs, Hearts and minds in guerrilla warfare: the Malayan Emergency, 1948–1960 (Singapore, 1989), p. 77.
96. The Times, 26 July 1948.
97. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 142–3.
98. J. B. Williams, minute, 19 August 1948, in CO537/3746, TNA.
99. A. J. Stockwell, ‘Gurney, Sir Henry Lovell Goldsworthy (1898–1951)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33611, accessed 12 Sept. 2005.
100. Quoted in Barber, The war of the running dogs, p. 36.
101. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 136–9.
102. Quoted in Charles Allen, Tales from the South China Seas (London, 1983), p. 294.
103. Broome to Heussler, 27 August 1981, Heussler Papers, RHO.
104. Note by W. L. Blythe, Heussler Papers, RHO.
105. Gurney to Creech Jones, 8 October 1948, CO537/3758, TNA.
106. Memorandum by T. P. F. McNeice, G. C. S. Atkins and G. W. Webb, in Gimson to Sir Thomas Lloyd, 8 December 1948, in A. J. Stockwell (ed.), British documents on the end of empire: Malaya, part II (London, 1995), pp. 83–87. See Stubbs, Hearts and minds in guerrilla warfare, p. 78.
107. Gurney to Creech Jones, 26 November 1948, CO537/3758, TNA.
108. Stubbs, Hearts and minds in guerrilla warfare, p. 69, and more generally the discussion on pp. 69–77.
109. R. Cole, ‘A signalman remembers’, http://members.tripod.com/Askari–MB/id51.htm.
110. Chin Peng, My side of history, pp. 230–31.
111. Gurney to Creech Jones, 30 October 1948, CO717/152/52146/73/49, TNA.
112. Yuen Yuet Leng, Operation Ginger (Kuala Lumpur, 1998), pp. 8–9. We are grateful to Dato Seri Yuen – a Special Branch Officer in Perak at the time of the Emergency – for making this available to us.
113. S. M. Middlebrook, ‘Pulai: an early Chinese settlement in Kelantan’, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, II, 2 (1933), pp. 151–6.
114. Yuen, Operation Ginger, p. 8
115. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 102–4.
116. Gurney to Creech Jones,