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14. Kurihara, op. cit., p.103.
15. Anna Belogurova, op., cit., pp.459, 460. Belogurova’s argument here is based on Ф. 514 о
п.1 д.532.
16. Ф. 495 оп.62 д.1
17. The Eastern Secretariat of the Comintern was set up in 1927 as a Headquarters’ section in
charge of Middle and Near East and Asian territories. Kurihara defines Headquarters of the
Comintern as the centre and the FEB as an intermediate supervising organization. See
Kurihara, op., cit., pp.48.
18. Ф. 495 оп.16 д.51
19. Cheah Boon Kheng, From PKI to the Comintern, 1924-1941: The Apprenticeship of the
Malayan Communist Party, New York, Cornell University, 1992, pp.54-56.
20. C.F. Yong, op., cit., pp.67-122.
21. Hanrahan, G.,Z., The Communist Struggle in Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, University of Malaya
Press, 1971, pp.29, 30.
22. Tsutsui Chihiro, Nampo Gunsei-ron (Military Administration of Southern Regions), Tokyo,
Japan Broadcasting Press Association, Feb. 1944. 筒 井 千 尋 >. Based on
this p.335, too, Cheah argued that “soon [after early1925], CCP members began arriving to
join the Malayan KMT branch and to form the nucleus of a Communist group known as the
Malayan Revolutionary Committee”. However, Tsutsui mentioned neither about the
communist group’s approach to the Malayan KMT nor about the Malayan Revolutionary
Committee at any part of this book, let alone on page 335. It seems these arose from
mistreatment of the translated documents of the Japanese Military Administration.
23. From the end of 1942 through the end of the occupation, Japan called both Malay and
Malaya as Malai. Prior to it, Japan called both Malay and Malaya as Malay (Malee). On 8
Dec.1942, Japanese cabinet decided this alteration (from Malay to Malai) because Malay
was said to be an English corruption of the original native word.
24. Tsutsui, op., cit., pp.146, 147. As for Lefranc and a secret mission led by him, see Chapter 4.
25. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, Collection of Important Resolutions of the
Momintern,(コミンテルン 重 要 決 議 集 ), Tokyo, 1951. / Takeuchi Minoru, Mao Ze Dong
and the Chinese Communist Party, Tokyo, Chuo Koron, 1972. ( 竹 内 実 《 毛 沢 東 と 中 国
共 産 党 》).
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