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124. P. D. R. Williams-Hunt, An introduction to the Malayan Aborigines (Kuala Lumpur, 1952), p. 93.
125. ‘Evacuating Malayan Aborigines’, Malayan Police Journal, March 1950, reprinted in Leary, Violence and the dream people, pp. 219–30.
126. Anthony Crockett, Green beret, red star (London, 1954), pp. 185–9.
127. Gamba, The origins of trade unionism, pp. 352–73.
128. Christopher Blake, A view from within: the last years of British rule in South-East Asia (Castle Cary, 1990), pp. 94–117.
129. Leong Yee Fong, Labour and trade unionism in colonial Malaya: a study of the socio-economic and political bases of the Malayan labour movement, 1930–1957 (Penang, 1999), pp. 236–45.
130. J. B. Perry Robinson, Transformation in Malaya (London, 1956), p. 79.
131. ‘Meeting of ministers on Malaya’, 2 April 1949; Creech Jones to Mac-Donald, CO537/4751, TNA.
132. Gurney to Creech Jones, 11 April 1949, CO537/4751, TNA.
133. Gurney to Creech Jones, 30 May 1949, CO537/4773, TNA.
134. ‘Minutes of the Fifteenth Conference held under the chairmanship of HE the Commissioner-General… on 7 June 1950 at Bukit Serene, Johore’, CO537/5970, TNA.
135. Appendix B, ‘The attitude of the Malay public towards the Malayan Communist Party’, 5 April 1949, CO537/4751, TNA.
136. Paskin to Gurney, 22 December 1948, CO537/3746, TNA.
137. Sir Thomas Lloyd to Gurney, 5 January 1949, ibid.
138. Thio Chan Bee, The extraordinary adventures of an ordinary man (London, 1977), pp. 62, 66–7, 75–87; Malay Mail, 10 January 1949.
139. One of the few academic discussions is Heng, Chinese politics in Malaysia, pp. 147–56.
140. ‘Notes of discussions of the Communities’ Liaison Committee held at Kuala Lumpur, 18 and 19 February 1949’, TCL/23/2, ISEAS.
141. ‘Notes of discussions of the Communities’ Liaison Committee held at Kuala Lumpur 13 and 14 August 1949’, TCL/23/7, ISEAS.
142. ‘Notes of discussions of the Communities’ Liaison Committee held at Penang 29, 30 and 31 December 1949’, TCL/23/8, ISEAS.
143. The Times, 18 April 1949.
144. Malay Mail, 27 August 1949.
145. Tan Cheng Lock to Yong Shook Lin, 19 January 1950, Tan Cheng Lock Papers, SP13/1/19, ANM.
146. MSS/PIJ, 15 November 1947.
147. Tan Jing Quee, ‘Lim Chin Siong: a political life’, in Jomo K. S. and Tan Jing Quee (eds.), Comet in our sky: Lim Chin Siong in history (Kuala Lumpur, 2001), p. 61.
148. Sir John Nicoll to Alan Lennox-Boyd, 26 February 1955, CO1030/360, TNA.
149. A. J. Stockwell, ‘Knowledge and power; university and nation in the new Malaya of 1938–62’, paper delivered at ‘Asian Horizons’ conference, Singapore, 1–3 August 2005.
150. Patrick Anderson, Snake wine: a Singapore episode (Singapore, 1980 [1955]), p. 221.
151. Ibid., p. 155.
152. Yeo Kim Wah, ‘Student politics in University of Malaya, 1949–51’, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 23, 2 (1992), pp. 346–80.
153. Malaya Tribune, 14 April 1947.
154. Anderson, Snake wine, p. 127.
155. G. I. Puthucheary, ‘Building the Malayan nation’, The Undergrad: unofficial organ of Raffles College Students’ Union, 1, 2 (24 January 1949), and other issues, 1, 3 (12 February 1949); 1, 4 (16 March 1949).
156. Cheah Boon Kheng (ed.), A. Samad Ismail: journalism and politics (Kuala Lumpur, 1987); Said Zahari, Dark clouds at dawn (Kuala Lumpur, 2001), p. 172.
157. Yeo Kim Wah, ‘Joining the communist underground: the conversion of English-educated radicals to communism in Singapore, June 1948–January 1951’, Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 67 (1994), pp. 29–59.
158. For this see T. N. Harper, ‘Lim Chin Siong and “the Singapore Story”’, in Jomo K. S. and Tan, Comet in our sky, pp. 1–56; Zahari, Dark clouds at dawn, pp. 275–9.
159. Malaya Tribune, 4 January 1949.
160. 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. 360–67.
161. A. Samad Said, ‘1948: Dawn of a