Word: rahman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighboring Federation of Malaya (nearly 60% Malay, 40% Chinese), shrewd Prime Minister Abdul Rahman has created a successful racial coalition-the Alliance Party-of Malays, Chinese and Indians, and has won the support of responsible Chinese by fashioning a political movement as delicately balanced as a Calder mobile...
...leader of the heavily favored Alliance Party, Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman, 56, quit his job as Prime Minister four months ago to barnstorm throughout all eleven states of the federation by motorboat and car. Cambridge-educated and a descendant of ancient Mongol conquerors of Malaya, he plumped for more education and economic development, said, "I was truly astounded by the ignorance in some places." Before upcountry pagodas and in front of east coast mosques, he greeted crowds by crying Merdeka (freedom) and arguing commonsensically that "there is too much talk about differences of race, religion and class rather than about...
...Abdul Rahman's campaigning was aided by Malaya's flourishing economy. The federation produces almost a third of the world's natural rubber and tin; its per capita income ($350) is the highest in Asia, and it boasts one telephone for every 100 persons (U.S. ratio: one for every 2½). With the ten-year-old Communist insurrection spluttering into oblivion in the northern jungles and with the nation's rice crop the largest in its history, voters swarmed to the polls last week on foot, and by car, boat, pedicab and elephant. The result...
...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...
Died. Sir Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi, 73, Sudanese religious and political leader, posthumous son of Mohammed ("Mad Mahdi") Ahmed, whose dervishes took Khartoum from Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1885; in Khartoum...