Professor P. T. Bauer's Comment on Post-War Malayan Rubber Policy re-opens discussion on policy-making and developments in the Malayan rubber industry following the Second World War. However, most of the discussion in Professor Bauer's Comment does not relate to, and in fact explicitly dismisses the specific historical subject of my article to which it purports to refer, “Rubber Strategy for Post-War Malaya, 1945-1948” (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, (March 1970, pp. 23-36). Yet he raises certain points which call for reply, and some for brief comment.