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117. McHugh, Anatomy of communist propaganda, pp. 46–47.
118. Gurney to Creech Jones, 2 December 1948, CO537/4240, TNA.
119. ‘Perak State Intelligence Sitrep for 24hrs ending 9am’, 5 November 1948, 16 November 1948, Pk. Sec3216/48, ANM.
120. Harry Fang, ‘Who are the squatters?’, Malaya Tribune, 5 February 1949; ‘The eviction at Sungei Siput’, Malaya Tribune, 7 February 1949; DSW/ER/4159/1/53, ANM.
121. Gurney to Creech Jones, 3 January 1949, CO537/4750, TNA.
122. Consul General of China to the Chief Secretary, 5 November 1948, ibid.
123. Tan Cheng Lock to Lord Listowel, 24 July 1948, Tan Cheng Lock Papers, SP13/A/12, ANM.
124. Federation of Malaya, Dept of Public Relations, Communist banditry in Malaya: the Emergency, June 1948–December 1949 (Kuala Lumpur, 1950), p. 7.
125. The Times, 4 January 1948.
126. Barber, The war of the running dogs, pp. 80–81.
127. Gurney to Creech Jones, 3 January 1949, CO537/4750, TNA.
128. See the account in Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 167–9, and also Stubbs, Hearts and minds in guerrilla warfare, p. 74.
129. Transcript: ITN, News at ten, 3 February 1970, DEFE13/843, TNA.
130. Transcript: Radio 4, The world this weekend, 1 February 1970, ibid.
131. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 168.
132. Lt.-Col. A. Fletcher, ‘2SG Malaya – December 1948’, 17 February 1970; Fletcher to HQ London District, 4 March 1970, DEFE70/101.
133. Ibid.
134. Newboult to Higham 1 January 1949, WO296/41, TNA.
135. Transcript: Radio 4, World at one, 2 February 1970, ibid.
136. DPP to Sir James Dunnett, MoD, 29 June 1970, DEFE13/843, TNA.
137. For the paper chase described here, see Tony Stockwell, ‘Colonial atrocities: uncovering cover-ups’, PROphile, 16, 1 (April 2005), pp. 1–6. We are grateful to Professor Stockwell for making this available to us.
138. Jonathan Kent, ‘Past lessons for occupying forces’, 17 July 2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/fromourowncorrespondent/3897147.stm.
139. ‘MCA Ministers should honour the MCA pledge a decade ago to secure justice for the 56-year Batang Kali Massacre by asking Cabinet to make public the finding of police investigations into the massacre completed in 1997’, Media statement by Lim Kit Siang, 17 July 2004, http://www.dapmalaysia.org/all-archive/English/2004/ju104/lks/lks3143.htm.
140. Kurt Bayer and Graham Ogilvy, ‘Veterans’ fury at “Malay massacre” claim’, Scotland on Sunday, 14 December 2003.
141. Reuters wire report, 4 February 1970, DEFE13/843, TNA.
142. Gurney to Creech Jones, 19 December 1948, CO537/3758, TNA.
143. Quoted in Stubbs, Hearts and minds in guerrilla warfare, p. 75; Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 168–9.
144. Cross and Gurung, Gurkhas at war, p. 204.
145. Daily Worker, 28 April 1952; see the discussion in CO1022/45, TNA.
CHAPTER 11 1949: THE CENTRE BARELY HOLDS
1. Central Intelligence Agency internal memo 208, 26 August 1949, p. 12, US declassified documents.
2. Ibid., p. 18.
3. ‘Review of Present Far East Defence Policy’ by chiefs of staff, January–February 1949, FO 371/75679, TNA.
4. Woodrow Wyatt to Cripps, 23 January 1949, CAB127/151, TNA.
5. Murray to Laithwaite, 23 June 1949, Laithwaite Papers, Mss Eur F138/74, OIOC.
6. CIA memo, 26 August 1949, p. 17, US declassified documents.
7. Bowker to Foreign Office, 27 January 1949, FO371/75679, TNA.
8. Attlee to Nu, 4 August 1949, following a series of complaints from Nu to Cripps, 20 April, 24 June 1949, CAB127/151, TNA.
9. Furnivall in Times of Burma, 10 April 1949.
10. Bowker to Foreign Office, 26 April 1949, FO371/75691, TNA.
11. Minute by B. R. Pearn on press cutting, ‘Establishment of National Economic Council by Burmese Government’, FO371/75691, TNA.
12. Nehru to Nu, 14 April 1949, in S. Gopal (ed.), Selected works of Jawaharlal Nehru, 2nd Series, vol. X (Delhi 1990), p. 410. This correspondence is located in the Jawaharlal Nehru Papers and the Krishna Menon Papers, Nehru Memorial Library, New Delhi.
13. Ibid., p. 413.
14. E.g., Hindustan Times, 9 January 1949.
15. Nehru to M. A. Rauf, 10