TRIBUTE ABDUL - Perdana Library

J. S. H. CUNYNGHAM-RROWN
In short - and it is scarcely possible to offer the Prime Minister
higher praise - his policies both at home and abroad are nothing
involved, elaborate or fine-drawn. They rest on those simple ideas
of human decency and good-conduct which it would indeed be well
if the rest of the world would adopt and follow.
To offer a panegyric of blind hero-worship and adulation to
Malaya's Prime Minister would seem to me wrong in principle as
well as false to so sane and wise a person. A short, true account as
seen by the man in the street, of his attitude to life as it appears to us
all from the daily record of his actions - of his practical, sensible
and kindly approach to the various problems that confront him - add
far more to the stature of the human picture that one desires
here to represent. Though the Tunku is the last man, one hopes of
whom it might ever be said - 'call him a god and you soon make him
a devil', I should nevertheless, rather than endowing him with so
dangerously radioactive an attribute as a halo, prefer to say how
honoured I feel to be permitted to add this, my poor bay-leaf to a
garland of sincere admiration, friendship and respect, contributed
to him by so many upon his 60th birthday.
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