Word: malay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Community of Interest. The federation includes almost equal numbers of Malays (2,500,000) and Chinese (2,000,000). The Malays are leisurely, pork-hating Moslems, the country's old settlers. The Chinese are industrious, pork-loving Confucianists, largely recent immigrants who now dominate the economy. After the war, the Malay nationalists insisted on limiting citizenship rights to some 10% of the Chinese. Such discrimination obviously undermined the country's chances of withstanding the Communist terror that broke out in June...
Early in 1949 Britain's able Malcolm MacDonald, Commissioner-General for Southeast Asia, brought the federation's hostile racial leaders together in a Communities' Liaison Council. On the council was the influential head of the United Malay National Organization, spruce, bespectacled, British-educated Dato Onn bin Jafaar, 54, once a violent baiter of Chinese. Several months of round-table parleys, plus the mounting Communist threat, converted Dato Onn. He publicly proclaimed: "Malays must accept as full nationals those of other races who are prepared to give their all to the country...
Sharing of Power. Urging Malays to support an enlarged franchise for Chinese, Dato Onn told Chinese businessmen: "You must share your economic power if we are willing to share our political power." He proposed that 50% of the Chinese get suffrage now, the other half in 20 years jvhen they are more thoroughly assimilated. The Chinese agreed to teach the Malays business know-how, through Chinese-financed training programs, Chinese-Malay companies and cooperatives. They rallied to the idea of a "political-economic partnership in which Chinese do not hate Malays and Malays do their share of work." But Dato...
...Malay States. 5. Pakistan...
...Blimpish resistance in the civil service, MacDonald is pushing educational and economic plans (e.g., more village schools and a five-year plan to integrate rubber-rich Malaya's lopsided economy). He has had notable results in bringing together the federation's rival Chinese (1,884,534) and Malay (2,427,834) population, mainly through the Communities Liaison Committee, in which leaders of both peoples talk over common problems of citizenship and economic opportunity...