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Kuala Lumpur, Malaya...
...years ago in Ecuador, a farmer could buy a tractor with the money from selling 50 bags of coffee; now it takes 150 bags. In Malaya, the government has lost $60 million in export duties in the past two years because of falling rubber prices. A 50% drop in cocoa prices has forced Ghana to suspend its economic development program. When a Biblical-sized storm of cotton worms descended on Egypt's cotton crop in 1961, the damage cost Egypt nearly $200 million in foreign exchange. All of these countries have one problem in common: their economies depend heavily...
...Brunei revolt at last gave the Philippines and Indonesia, for different reasons, an excuse to display their opposition to the scheme. Oblivious to Malaya's success against Red infiltration, the Philippines feared that leftists would ultimately take over the new nation, thus putting a Communist neighbor right on their doorstep. Dusting off an old claim to North Borneo, the Philippines maintained that in 1878 the Sultan of Sulu had only "leased," not sold, the territory to the British. London stiffly rejected the Filipino claim to the region...
...British mercenaries and puppets," granted political asylum to Brunei Leader Azahari, raved that Abdul Rahman was "round the bend." (Retorted the Tunku: "What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?") Djakarta mobs hanged the Tun ku in effigy, and Sukarno declared a "policy of confrontation" against Malaya. Indonesian jets buzzed Malayan ships in the South China Sea, and army leaders darkly threatened "incidents of physical conflict" along the border of Brunei and Indonesia...
From the standpoint of language, religion, culture or geography, Malaysia is not a natural nation. But Abdul Rahman has faced problems similar to Malaysia's in his own Malaya-and there a decent society has flourished. He does not promise the moon to his new nation, only a sane, humane, workable government. Under his leadership, Malaysia can be, as John F. Kennedy has said, "the best hope of security in that vital part of the world...