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...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...
Malaya: Despite a nine-year-old Communist uprising, Chief Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, a wealthy Malayan Moslem prince, announced that his government would cut British forces in Malaya by 50% and start building its own army after the Federation (pop. 6,200,000) achieves independence next August...
Last year they set up Malaya's first popularly elected government, prepared for a period of temporary confusion and uncertainty while Malayans found their political feet. Chief Minister Prince (the Tengku) Abdul Rahman moved immediately to make peace with the Communists, offered an amnesty to Chin Peng, who has been waging guerrilla war in the jungle for eight years (TIME, Jan. 9). Stung by Chin Peng's taunt that Malaya would not be truly independent until it had control of the country's defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence...
...members appointed by the British. But as a popularly elected body, the Alliance Party will have a far more powerful voice than that of the British appointees. President of the Alliance Party and certain to be chief minister in the new government is Prince Abdul Rahman, known as the Tengku (meaning prince in Malayan), a son of the Sultan of Kedah, a dynasty founded centuries ago by a Mongol chieftain who was shipwrecked on the Malayan coast. Tengku's mother was the daughter of a Siamese chieftain...
...Tengku was educated in England, and returning there in 1947 for a belated law degree, managed to get named as a corespondent in an English divorce case, a feat which did him no harm with his electorate. The Tengku stumped the country tirelessly on foot and by car, preaching the Alliance Party's program of complete independence in four years, and the "Malayanizing" of the public services, i.e., kicking out the British officials. But the British are not unduly worried. For all his talk, the Tengku stands for a conservative capitalist economy and the encouragement of foreign investment...