The Federation of Malaya and Its Police, 1786-1952. Kuala Lumpur, Cold War China

The Federation of Malaya and Its Police, 1786-1952.
Kuala Lumpur: Printed by Charles Grenier & Son, Ltd, [c.1952]

43 Pages

26cm x 19cm

First edition of this publication issued to new police officers, including a substantial section on the emergency. “A dead terrorist is a cause for general satisfaction… But a surrendered terrorist is of much greater interest” (p. 39).

The guide locates the origins of the post-war troubles in China’s long tradition of secret societies. “The Min Yuen is the latest in the long list of Chinese secret societies in Malaya… Before the Emergency it had a public front and an underground movement. Its leaders appeared on public Party platforms; gave press interviews; directed the labour federations; opposed the new constitutions for Singapore and the Federation. Behind this front the Party planted agents in the unions and fomented strikes, and kept, hidden and greased, the weapons the M.P.A.J.A. [Malayan Peoples’ Anti-Japanese Army] had failed to surrender at the end of the war” (p. 32).

Description
Quarto. Colour frontispiece map of Malay Peninsula, folding chart of police organizational structure, illustrations in text.

Original blue boards, front cover lettered in black, arms of Federation of Malaya Police in silver.

Including multi folded cart of the police organisation at the end of the book