Word: abdul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malayans, too, did things in style, though the curiously unenthusiastic calm with which they received their independence was attributed by British residents to the fact that it was "handed to them on a platter." Gracefully, round-faced, 54-year-old Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman* paid tribute to Britain. "Malaya," said he, "is blessed with a good administration forged and tempered to perfection by successive British administrators. Let this legacy not suffer." He himself was exhilarated, if his people did not outwardly seem so. "I am," he confessed, "as enthusiastic and excited as a child being given...
Unlike most children, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman was keenly aware that his new toy was breakable. An admirer of Nehru, the Tengku has already served notice that Malaya will not join SEATO. "For the protection of this country," said he last week, "I consider it sufficient that we enter into defense agreements with Britain." But for all his lack of enthusiasm for military pacts, Abdul Rahman is determined to clean up the Communist revolt that has plagued Malaya for the last nine years, at a cost to Britain and Malaya of $1,680,000,000 and nearly 4,500 lives...
...Ever-Present Shadow. The Chinese, who make up nearly all of Malaya's 1,800 Red guerrillas, are also at the bottom of Abdul Rahman's other chief headache-the threat of racial strife in Malaya. Of the new nation's 6,000,000 citizens, 49% are Malay and nearly 38% are Chinese. (The remaining 13% are mostly Indians and Pakistanis.) Abdul Rahman, one of whose adopted daughters is Chinese, has a long record of successful political cooperation with Malaya's Chinese, and the Ministers of Finance and Commerce in his new Cabinet are Chinese...
...done an effective job of combatting the Reds in Singapore. But if Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese become Malayan citizens, the Malays would be a minority in their own country. "It is not our intention to place a barrier at the Singapore causeway," says Abdul Rahman, adding hastily "until we have worked this question...
...often confused with, Malaya's newly elected paramount ruler, His Majesty Tuanku Abdul Rahman...