Word: tengku
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheme are Singapore's Red-leaning, left-wing extremists (mostly Chinese), whose rising influence threatens the regime of moderate Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and could stall Singapore's slow but steady move from British colonial status toward full independence. Fearful of chaos ahead, Malayan Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman now shares Lee's view that Singapore's Communists can be stopped only if the two territories join forces...
...along quietly. Last week, as the Federation of Malaya celebrated the fourth anniversary of independence, the tranquillity was briefly broken by countrywide lantern processions, garden parties and a parade of 24,000 schoolchildren at Kuala Lumpur's cavernous Merdeka (Independence) Stadium. Said Malaya's pragmatic Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, 58: "We can look back on these past four years of freedom with a genuine feeling of achievement and success...
Macmillan. he demanded: "What about the Netting Hill troubles here?" India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, displaying considerable restraint, tried to reason with Louw. So did Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman, who had precipitated a crisis by walking out on a meeting with Louw during the first week of the conference. Even Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, originally sympathetic to Louw's problems, gave up in the face of his intransigence. At a meeting of London's South Africa Club. Louw said the other Prime Ministers had greeted him with...
Ghana's Nkrumah canceled a proposed exchange of visits between Ghanians and South Africans. Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman and several other ministers were only persuaded at the last moment from putting out a dissenting communique of their own. New Zealand's Walter Nash made his feelings clear by publicly stating: "There are no inherently superior people-none." At the moment, few Commonwealth Prime Ministers want to throw South Africa out of the club. The member nations seem ready to wait a year or 18 months until their next meeting in the hope that mounting world pressures...
...accused nor as a penitent nor as a suppliant." and added that his government saw "no reason for any basic change" in its racial policies. That afternoon, when Louw took the same line at his promised informal meeting with the Prime Ministers, Malaya's normally genial Tengku Abdul Rahman walked out in a rage, called his own press conference to announce: "I shall invite the attention of all Asian and African countries to this impasse." Although his walkout was the first in the history of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conferences, the Tengku clearly had the sympathy of most...