Failure To Trust Men On The Spot Caused Malayan Troubles
LONDON, Nov. 1, Recd. 8.10 p.m.— The Communist menace had existed in Malaya for more than twenty years. It was not an unexpected crisis which the Government suddenly had to face, writes the former High Commissioner for Malaya, Sir Shenton Thomas, in a letter to “The Times.” He said the Communist menace had been controlled only by the firm hut just use of powers to repatriate alien
agitators to their own country and to require all societies to establish their bona tides before the Government legalised them. The Colonial Office was well aware of this but nevertheless withheld these essential powers from the British military administration and from the post-war civil administration. Powers which succesive High Commissioners wielded for years without reproach were, at a time of special stress and danger, denied to Sir Edward Gent. Mr. Creech Jones’ refusal to face the facts and trust the men on the spot had been the prime cause of the Malayan troubles from first to last.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 2 November 1948, Page 5
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