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...people of Washington, D.C. when I read that a Malayan, S. Thava Rajah, had to spend 90 days as a guest of our Government to show us that we only preach democracy. Racial discrimination, whether North or South, is the blackest spot on our nation's record of freedom for all men. If the national capital cannot set a better example, let's move the seat (and head) of our Government back to Philadelphia, "the city of brotherly love...
...days later, Rajah, a Burmese judge and a Malayan university lecturer went to a restaurant for an after-theater snack. Said a waitress: "We don't serve black people in here." Said the manager: "It's the law." But when the three visitors tried to find out about the law, they got nowhere, because there is no such...
After these incidents, Malayan Rajah last week was not necessarily unfriendly, but he was vastly puzzled. Said he: "After all, isn't white a color? I am terribly surprised by all this. You people talk democracy, and you must be careful to practice what you preach...
...front against Communism in Malaya stand British colonials, whose stiff-necked disdain for Malay and Chinese alike has made the struggle harder. Last June, the Selangor branch of St. George's Society, a British get-together club, sent out dinner invitations to the Sultan of Selangor and other Malayan dignitaries. The dinner was to take place at the exclusive Lake Club in Kuala Lumpur, but the club committee refused permission on the ground that a half-century-old custom prohibits Asian guests. The club's action enraged Britain's dynamic new High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer, charged...
...highest hope is to forge the Malayan Chinese into good Malayan citizens, loyal to the British Commonwealth. His Chinese party will press for full citizenship for Malayan-born Chinese (two-thirds of its members); those born in China will be "weaned so that they transfer their love and affection and loyalty from China to Malaya." "What matters," says Tan, "is the creation of a Sino-Malay spirit," and he thinks this can be done by giving the Chinese squatters a grubstake in the land. "A land title," says Tan, "is the hoop that holds the barrel together...