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of the troops who came to Malaya in 1945 after the Jap- anese surrender behaved as an army of occupation instead of a liberating force: the Colonial Office introduced the Mch ichel Treaties which had to be replaced as a result of almost solid Malay opposition: gangsters and bandits were for long able to do almost what they liked up and down the country, and neither the Fed- eration nor the Singapore Government was able to hold them in check.
British credit has been lessened by the apparent (and sometimes real) breaches of faith with those who loyal- ly and honestly worked under Government's directions in the years 1939-1942 the volun- teers who have not received the pay they feel they were entitled to: traders who have received no compensation for goods destroyed or handed over for war use: Government subor- dinates whose treatment in the matter of pay during the occu- pation years has left them with the feeling that discrimination ruled the decision: those whose claims for compensation have been so frequently ignored since the liberation.
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Much can and is being done to improve matters by individ- ual Government officers gaining the confidence and friendship of the people of their own dis- tricts by their personal con- tact in the towns, the kampongs and the padi fields.
uick administration of the law is necessary to restore confidence in Government: delay in bring- ing cases for hearing had a very bad effect during 1946- 1947.
To enlist the co-operation of Asian civilians with the Administration they must be freed from the fear of Commu- nism. Malays have suffered at the hands of the Chinese Commu- nists and so has the bulk of
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