Word: tengku
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Federation of Malaya gained its independence and full-fledged membership in the British Commonwealth last August, Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman immediately dispatched a message into the jungles (TIME, Sept. 16). Its net: if Communist terrorists still holding out after nine years of costly guerrilla warfare against the British would lay down their arms and forswear Communism, they would get a full pardon. Those unwilling to give up Communism got the offer of free passage with their families to Red China. Rahman gave the rebels until year's end to accept his "final" offer...
...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...
...Chinese crown colony of Singapore, which handles 75% of Malaya's business, and is separated from the new nation only by a half-mile-long causeway. Singapore, which is due to get local autonomy in 1958, would like to become part of Malaya-a prospect which leaves the Tengku at best lukewarm. Singapore's energetic Chief Minister Lim Yew Hock (who a fortnight ago ordered the arrest of 35 of the colony's top Communists and offered paid one-way trips to Red China for anyone who wants to go) has done an effective job of combatting...
...independence. The name is a common one in Malaya, and they are not related. When both were law students in London, friends had difficulty with their honorifics-the newly elected Paramount Ruler is Tuanku (applied only to rulers and sometimes their eldest sons), while the present Chief Minister is Tengku, which means a royal prince...