TRIBUTE ABDUL - Perdana Library

FRANCIS COORAY
The task ahead is tremendous, the problems are many and
complicated, fears are genuine even where they are ill-founded
and Malaya is taking on serious responsibilities for the welfare
of the people of the new members of the new Federation. Tunku
Abdul Rahman is today the symbol of that new happiness and
prosperity which they expect. He will, therefore, need the
co-operation and goodwill of all Malayans.
I am indeed happy to pay this tribute to the man who stands
head and shoulders above many of his contemporaries in this
part of Asia and who has guided the Federation of Malaya to the
front rank of progressive nations.
What lies ahead of the Tunku is in the lap of the gods but
come what may he will always be the same loyal, generous and
patriotic Malay who, though born a prince, can always say
with the poet:
With who.n I feast I do not fawn,
Nor if the folks should flout me, faint:
If wonted welcome be withdrawn,
1 cook no kind of a complaint:
With none disposed to disagree,
But like them best who best like me.
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