Word: tengku
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...year-old Federation of Malaya is a nation in which the Malays have most of the numbers, the Chinese most of the money. It can exist only if the twain can meet. Thanks largely to the foresighted leadership of Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, a wealthy, Cambridge-educated Moslem prince, peaceful and prosperous Malaya is run by a coalition Alliance Party, which has established a tenuous racial harmony among Malaya's 6,500,000 polyglot population...
Last week the ties that for seven years have bound the Alliance-Malays, the self-sufficient and aloof Chinese, and the Indians-began to fray. The ties held only when the Tengku proved that under his bland exterior he can be a hard man indeed. Trouble began over how the Alliance would distribute its candidates for the 104 parliamentary seats in next month's federal elections. Word got out that the Tengku would give the Indian minority half a dozen seats, the Chinese (who represent 40% of the population) would get 28 seats, and the rest would...
...disgruntled president of the Malayan Chinese Association, Dr. Lim Chong Eu, wrote a "secret" letter to the Tengku (which was soon leaked), demanding 40 seats. Answered the Prince angrily: "Your action in presenting me with an ultimatum at this late hour is really a stab in the back...
...Malaya, deceptively gentle-mannered Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, 56, announced that he was resigning after a two-month vacation because "the time has come for me to go among the people again." Rahman's reasoning: he has ruled for the past four years through an alliance of three parties that have grown flabby for want of opposition. (Even the Communist guerrillas in the Malayan jungles are down to an official 347.) With federation-wide elections due this summer, Rahman is making a strategic withdrawal in order to stump the villages and make doubly sure that his own party...
Malaya. The only nation in Southeast Asia that still operates as a parliamentary democracy, Malaya is also one of the most solidly based. It has an able leader, the Moslem Premier Tengku Abdul Rahman, who was able to lift emergency restrictions in the state of Negri Sembilan last week, has now cleaned up 80% of the country as the eleven-year war against Communist guerrillas in the jungle sputters off into insignificance...