[Two printed booklets: 'Anchaman Komiunis yang Menggunakan Kekerasan Di-Malaysia Barat' and English translation 'The Militant Communist Threat to West Malaysia.'

Author: 
Tun (Dr) Ismail bin Dato Haji Abdul Rahman, Minister of Home Affairs, Malaysia [Sarawak Communist Organisation; Communist Party of Malaya; Communist Terrorist Organisation]
Publication details: 
[Both pamphlets] Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Di-Chetak Di-Jabatan Chetak Kerajaan, Oleh Thor Beng Chong, A.M.N., Penchetak Kerajaan. 1966.
£280.00
SKU: 13077

Malaysian original: vi+21pp., 8vo. English translation: vi+17pp., 8vo. Both printed in same layout and format, and both in red and black printed card wraps. Foreword, dated 24 October 1966, by Malaysian Minister of Home Affairs Tun (Dr) Ismail bin Dato Haji Abdul Rahman. Malaysian original near fine; English translation very good, with bumped corner. Scarce: no copies of the Malaysian original on OCLC WorldCap or COPAC, and the only copies of the English translation at the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies, Yale, Cornell, the Library of the Marine Corps, and Singapore. From the private papers of C. A. A. Nicol (1921-2012), OBE, CPM, AMN, who was a 'Member of a joint FCO/MOD department in Hong Kong' between 1970 and 1975. Nicol joined the Malayan Union Police Force in 1950, and served in the Royal Malaysian Police between 1957 and 1967, 'to assist in promoting and consolidating the successful transition to full independence. During this period the Special Branch played a vital role in maintaining peace and security in the country.'