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...able to talk of the fighting in Viet Nam, trade difficulties with Japan, sniping across the DMZ in Korea, Communist insurgency in Thailand. Looking back, most of them agreed that perhaps the most pleasant days of the trip were spent in Malaysia, where they were entertained by Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
Sensing this attitude, many delegates expressed concern. "Britain feels that the task of leadership is onerous," said Malaysia's Tunku Abdul Rahman. "It has lost the power and the will to use it." After "centuries of responsibility," agreed Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, "a mood of disenchantment and withdrawal is all pervasive. Britain has decided to put British interests first." To an extent, that is true. Britain simply has had it as the Commonwealth doormat, and the other members are beginning to acknowledge this change of mood and to handle the crotchety old schoolmaster with uncharacteristic care...
Technical Aid. Humphrey had two other important stops to make before he got back to Gripesville. The first was Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia, where Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman said that Malaysia is considering a revival of its rural-assistance program to South Viet Nam, which lapsed with the assassination of President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963. Malaysia already trains South Vietnamese in police work and American troops in jungle techniques. Warned by the Tunku that Communist China will certainly capture all of Southeast Asia if the war is lost, Humphrey repeated in essence what he had said...
...economic progress. Per capita income has grown 4% annually, until today it stands at $313 -one of Asia's highest. Every year 18% of the national product has been plowed back into investments, much of it in the villages in an impressive rural-development program headed by the Tunku's friend, Deputy Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak...
...world's biggest producer of tin and rubber, but it has also developed scores of new enterprises to cash in on the country's other mineral and agricultural resources. A new university has been built in Penang, and a steel mill is going up at Prai. The Tunku's Alliance Party supports...