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...grouping would loosely join Indonesia and the Philippines to Tunku Abdul Rahman's Federation of Malaysia (Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei) to be established Aug. 31. The Philippines claim a part of North Borneo as its own but agreed amicably to postpone settlement of the issue. Indonesia's President Sukarno, who had condemned the Malaysia Federation as an imperialist plot, apparently realized that since he can't stop it, he might as well try to join...
...leaders were ever less likely to be chummy than Indonesia's President Sukarno and Malaya's Prime Minister Tunku (Prince) Abdul Rahman...
...formation of the Tunku's Malaysian Federation of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, which would successfully contain his expansionist ambitions. Indonesia has threatened Malaya with force, ranted that the Tunku was "round the bend." But at a surprise meeting in Tokyo last week, Sukarno and Abdul Rahman embraced each other as if they had been exchanging posies instead of brickbats...
...informal conference was suggested by Sukarno, who was reclining in Japan on the first leg of a round-the-world holiday. Though the invitation was somewhat startling, Abdul Rahman responded quickly, flew off to Tokyo for two lengthy closed-door sessions with his old adversary. Before long, they were laughing and joking loudly. Between chuckles, they agreed to a "cease-fire" that would end "acrimonious attacks and disparaging references" against each other. Promising to settle outstanding problems in "a spirit of neighborliness," the two leaders scheduled a foreign ministers' conference this week among their two nations and the Philippines...
...have afforded me great pleasure to be able to thank the American people once more from all my heart and on American soil for the readiness to help and the friendship which it has shown us immediately after the war and during the following difficult years." Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, presiding at the birth of a new nation, regretted that "with Malaysia in the offing, my presence in Malaya is very necessary." One guest who was scheduled to speak sent regrets at nearly the last moment. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, honeymooning in Venezuela, wired that he knew "those...