The Backroom Boys—and Girls

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-150
Author(s):  
Peter Kornicki
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Far East ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Naval Base ◽  
Naval Service

After finishing their course at the Bedford Japanese School in 1942, some people were sent out to the Wireless Experimental Centre in Delhi, which was the equivalent to Bletchley Park in India and which also absorbed cryptographers from the Far East Combined Bureau after the fall of Singapore. The Wireless Experimental Centre was primarily concerned with monitoring communications connected with the Burma Campaign and the Japanese attempted invasion of India. Meanwhile, the members of the Women’s Royal Naval Service who had been working at the Far East Combined Bureau in Singapore, and who had been the first British servicewomen to be posted overseas, were transferred to Kilindini Naval Base near Mombasa, where the British Eastern Fleet was based after having been forced to leave its base on Ceylon (Sri Lanka). In 1944, as the tide of the war was turning, the Eastern Fleet returned to Ceylon: one of the troopships, SS Khedive Ismail, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and this led to the largest single loss of Allied servicewomen and of African troops in the war, including some of the Wrens.

Major General William Dobbie and the Defence of Malaya, 1935–38

1986 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-306
Author(s):  
Ong Chit Chung
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Major General ◽  
Naval Base

The Singapore naval base, first conceived in 1919 and endorsed by the British Cabinet in 1921, was the cornerstone of British strategic plan in the Far East. Dubbed as the Singapore strategy, the plan entailed the building of a secure naval base in Singapore. As Britain could not afford to station a separate fleet in the Far East, the main British fleet would sail to the Far East and operate from Singapore in the event of a crisis.

The Policies and Interests of Great Britain and Holland in the Far East

1938 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 727-735
Author(s):  
Lennox A. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Far East ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Naval Base

The Policies and Interests of Great Britain and Holland in the Far East. No traveller in Eastern Asia can fail to be impressed by the widespread alarm and hostility towards Japan's intentions and her economic penetration. This feeling is first to be encountered in Ceylon, where, despite the Singapore naval base, there is a distinct undercurrent of uneasiness among the Ceylonese political leaders. The attitude is much more pronounced in British Malaya, and becomes steadily stronger as one nears Japan. Sympathy for China is the dominant sentiment; but at the same time one encounters the belief that in the long run the Chinese may prove the more serious problem. A very important Dutch official typified this attitude when he remarked that he believed that Japan's ambitions in China would fatally overstrain her resources so that in a few years she would cease to be a menace, “but even after a couple of centuries the problem of the Chinese immigrants will be as serious as ever.”

American Naval-Base Policy in the Far East 1850-1914

1944 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seward W. Livermore
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Naval Base

Britain in the Far East: The Singapore Naval Base

1956 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-254
Author(s):  
A. S. B. Olver
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Naval Base

Is there a regional culture in Russia? Opportunities of using a sociocultural approach in economics

2020 ◽  
pp. 108-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Bryzgalin ◽  
Е. N. Nikishina
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Geographical Patterns ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
The Far East ◽  
Sociocultural Approach ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Russian Universities

The paper investigates cross-cultural differences across Russian regions using the methodology of G. Hofstede. First, it discusses the most common approaches in measuring culture and the application of the Hofstede methodology in subnational studies. It identifies the critical issues in measuring culture at the regional level and suggests several strategies to address them. Secondly, the paper introduces subregional data on individualism and uncertainty avoidance using a survey of students across 27 Russian universities. The data allow to establish geographical patterns of individualism in Russia. It is demonstrated that collectivism is most prevalent in the Volga region, while individualism characteristic becomes stronger towards the Far East. The findings are robust to the inclusion of various controls and different specifications of the regression model. Finally, the paper provides a discussion about the potential of applying the sociocultural approach in economics.

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