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in Malaya, but most of the material is too sound to have
been written hurriedly. It has obviously been gathered and
sifted over the years Miss Thompson was getting facts for
her other books on southeastern Asia.
The peoples, the politics, the economics, the military
history, and British colonial policies in Malaya have been
carefully examined and very fairly analyzed. The overall
picture of the pre-invasion Malaya that one gathers from
the book is this: Countries with colonial empires can no
longer isolate their colonies and keep them apart from the
general national and international policies of the mother
country. They cannot apply local remedies to local ills and
ignore the basic mistakes in policy that gave rise to the ills.
Nowhere was the interdependence of colonial and national
policy less understood than in the Far East, and this
misunderstanding led to the fall of Bataan, Corregidor,
Singapore, Java, Borneo, and other southwestern Pacific
possessions.
The collapse of Malaya is an excellent example of
imperial failure. It draws a moral that Great Britain and
America can little afford to neglect when they come to
consider the peace.
R. G. M.
HANDBOOK OF SPOKEN EGYPTIAN ARABIC (Fourth
Edition). By J. S. Willmore. 113 pages. Oxford
University Press, 1943. $1.25.
A short grammar combined with an English-Arabic
vocabulary of current words and phrases, printed in shirtpocket
size—in short, a mighty handy little book for
anyone going to, through, or via Cairo. It should be
accurate and authentic, too, since it was prepared by a onetime
judge of the native court of appeals in that city.
PEACE AND WAR: United States Foreign Policy, 1931-
1941. Department of State, Publication 1853. 144
pages. Government Printing Office, 1943. 25c.
Throughout this "White Paper" run two consistent but
opposing themes, like the concurrent but contrary flow of
an upstream eddy in a river. One is our Government's
consistent policy in seeking world-wide establishment of
principles of international conduct on the basis of which all
nations could attain security, confidence, and progress. The
other is other governments' lip-service to generalities, with
consistent weaseling when definite proposals were
discussed.
The book itself is an introduction to a collection of
documents (now being prepared for publication)
concerning our foreign relations during the decade
mentioned. It summarizes the more important
conversations, discussions, proposals, counter-proposals,
addresses, and events, to present a damning picture of Axis
actions. Although it was viciously attacked by the Axis
nations, it has not received at home the attention it
deserves. More of us should know its details.