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54. This is a striking theme of the testimonies in Khoo, Life as the river flows:
55. This is extrapolated from a statement in papers found on a dead Johore commander; Anthony Short, In pursuit of mountain rats: the communist insurrection in Malaya (Singapore, 2000 [1975]), pp. 104–6.
56. Statement of ‘Liew Tian Choy’.
57. Coates, Suppressing insurgency, p. 150.
58. As described in Alan Hoe and Eric Morris, Re-enter the SAS: the SAS and the Malayan campaign (London, 1994), pp. 30–31.
59. BDCC (FE), 16th meeting, 28 January 1949, CO537/4773, TNA.
60. Brian Stewart, Smashing terrorism in the Malayan Emergency: the vital contribution of the police (Kuala Lumpur, 2004), pp. 24–5.
61. Gurney to Creech Jones, 6 October 1949, CO717/162/52745/19/49, TNA.
62. Karl Hack, ‘British intelligence and counter-insurgency in the era of decolonisation: the example of Malaya’, Intelligence and National Security, 14, 2 (1999), pp. 127–9.
63. A. J. Stockwell, ‘Policing during the Malayan Emergency, 1948–60: communism, communalism and decolonization’, in D. Anderson and D. Killingray, Policing and decolonization: politics, nationalism and the police (Manchester, 1992), pp. 105–28.
64. Emergency propaganda leaflets, RHO.
65. For this assessment see the important study by Ramakrishna, Emergency propaganda, pp. 72–84.
66. Chin Peng, My side of history, p. 4.
67. Pye, Guerrilla communism, p. 187.
68. J. N. McHugh, Anatomy of communist propaganda (Kuala Lumpur, 1949). See also the interesting essay by Rui Xiong Kee, ‘Exploring the “communist” in the communist insurrection in Malaya’, Standford University, Program in Writing and Rhetoric, The Boothe Prize essays, 2004 (Standford, 2004), pp. 37–49, http://pwr.stanford.edu/publications/Boothe%20book%202004.pdf.
69. ‘Third further statement of Liew Thian Choy’, 10 October 1949, B. P. Walker Taylor Papers, RHO.
70. ‘Surrender policy’, Arthur Young Papers, RHO.
71. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, pp. 383–4.
72. Simon C. Smith, British relations with the Malaya rulers from decentralization to independence, 1930–1957 (Kuala Lumpur, 1995), p. 125.
73. Charles Gamba, The origins of trade unionism in Malaya (Singapore, 1960), p. 418.
74. ‘Cabinet – Malaya Committee: Detention procedure, memorandum by the Secretary of State for the Colonies’, 10 July 1950, CO717/199/1, TNA.
75. ‘Detention in the Federation of Malaya’; Straits Budget, 5 April 1950, CO717/199/1, TNA.
76. Federation of Malaya, monthly newsletter no. 36, 16 December 1951 to 15 January 1952, CO1022/132, TNA.
77. Frank Brewer, ‘Malaya – Administration of Chinese affairs, 1945–57’, in Heussler Papers, RHO.
78. Khatijah Sidek, Memoirs of Khatijah Sidek: puteri kesateria bangsa (Kuala Lumpur, 2001 [1960]), pp. 89–90.
79. Tom Driberg, ‘In detention’, Reynolds News, 12 November 1950.
80. Quoted in Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 193.
81. F. D. Marrable, Officer Superintending Police Circle Klang to Superintending Klang Camp, 10 October 1950, CO717/199/2, TNA.
82. N. R. Hilton, ‘Detention camp – Tanjong Bruas, visited on 1 December 1951’, CO1022/326, TNA.
83. Sir Donald MacGillivray to Alan Lennox Boyd, 6 June 1955, CO1030/145, TNA; Straits Times, 16 June 1955, 16 July 1955.
84. Ramakrishna, Emergency propaganda, pp. 65–6.
85. Gurney to Sir Thomas Lloyd, 20 December 1948, in A. J. Stockwell, ed., British documents on the end of empire: Malaya, part II (London, 1995), p. 91.
86. Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 191.
87. Federation of Malaya, monthly newsletter, 16 January to 15 February 1951, CO717/199/2; ibid., 16 March to 15 April 1951, CO1022/137, TNA; A. H. P. Humphreys. ‘The communist insurrection in Malaya’, A. H. P. Humphreys Papers, RHO.
88. P. A. Collin, ‘Escorting banishees to China’, in Stewart, Smashing terrorism in the Malayan Emergency, p. 234.
89. ‘Malaya: detention, repatriation and resettlement of Chinese’, 31 January 1951, CO717/199/2, TNA.
90. Quoted in Short, In pursuit of mountain rats, p. 191.
91. British Embassy Peking to Foreign Office, 14 March 1951, CO717/199/2, TNA.
92. Nan