Lt. Gen. Percival.
Page.
Para.
20
96
Ibid
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15. SERVICE
CIVIL LIAISON.
"I feel bound to record
that
in my experience of Malaya there was a lack of the team spirit between the Service Departments on the one side and the Civil Government on the other in tackling problems of common object, i.e. the security of Malaya, was at times overshadowed by local interests, aggravated by the insistence of the Home Government on the maximum production of tin and rubber."
"There was also a difficulty in getting full and accurate information as to civil defence
measures.
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Air Chief Marshal Sir R. Brooke-Popham.
4
15
15
68
"As regards the Colonial Service generally, our relations in most cases were satisfactory and much help was received .
feel it would be of great value to the Colonial Service if its officers could attend some college on the lines of the Military Staff Colleges at some time in their career.
I
"Relations between the Services and Civilian communities were better up country than in Singapore."
Air Vice Marshal
ir P. Maltby.
59
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627
"Civil interests an
fighting Services
competed keenly for labour, M.T. constructional material and equipment, all of which were in short supply.
Before war
came it was difficult to obtain access to land for the construction of serodromes and other installations, particularly if its acquisition affectel the production of rubber or tin, which were Malaya's most important contribution to the war in Europe and which her administrators had been enjoined to raise to a maximum. !!