When Britain quit India in 1947, a colonial official noted that “the press
greatly enjoyed themselves with the pall of smoke which hung over Delhi
with the mass destruction of documents”. By the time of Malayan
independence in 1957, the authorities were learning discretion. British
soldiers drove cratefuls of papers in a civilian truck from the colony’s
capital, Kuala Lumpur, to what an administrator referred to as “the Navy’s
splendid incinerator” in Singapore. This 220‑mile journey to a secret
burning exemplified the “considerable pains” taken by the colony “to avoid
exacerbating relationships between the British government and those
Malayans who might not have been so understanding”.

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