From Singapore, Manfred Gottfried, chief of foreign correspondents for TIME & LIFE, cabled this appraisal of the situation in Malaya:
They speak of Emergency here. It means Communist terrorism. The Emergency is not getting any better. Every day or so another planter or soldier or constable is killed. Recently, bandits fired into a car in which a planter's daughter, aged 2½, was riding. They hit the driver and the car went into the ditch. Then the bandits came up, shot the little girl through the head at close range, killed the cook boy who...
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