No one can doubt the necessity for drastic security measures
in Malaya, particularly precautions against the entry into the territory of anyone with Communist tendencies. The worst of it is that no One seems to have the auitiority, or the courage, to waive a regulation when it hits someone it was obviously never meant to touch. Here is a case just-reported to me. A Chinese accountant living originally in Hong Kong, and described as a keen Churchman, who has for some time been organist of St. Matthew's Church, Singapore, was moved thither from Hong Kong by his firm, to open a new branch there. He is naturally anxious that his family should settle with him in Singapore, but though he can get permission for his wife and one daughter, his two sons, aged respectively nineteen and fifteen, are banned. To break up a family in this way is, on the face of it, deplorable. The Bishop of Hong Kong at one end and the Bishop of Singapore at the other have done everything possible, but with- out success. The sons, like their father, were born in Canton, the father being on the staff of an Anglican Church there. I wonder what feelings those young men will entertain towards the British authorities. Probably much what mine would be.
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