The Asian Crisis and the Malay Peninsula

Abstract

in Britain have warned the public that grave as are the problems of Asia, the affairs of Europe are no less serious and indeed may prove of predominant importance. There is a wide appreciation in London of the indivisibility of the problem of security and world peace. The war in Korea, the communist victory in China, the Pacific peace and future of Japan, the struggle in Indo-China, the difficulties of Burma; the terrorism in Malaya, the rising stature of India, the Kashmir dispute, the disorders in Indonesia, the relations of Tibet, the constitution of Nepal, the problem of Formosa, the menace of communism, the inadequacy of certain of the successful nationalist causes, all these matters and many more are anxiously discussed in almost every journal and wherever people gather. Forebodings mingle with those deriving from the condition of Europe. The task of statesmen in seeking a more tranquil world seems to most people as futile as it is bewildering because intransigence and doctrinaire rigidity block the way to accommodation.