TRIBUTE ABDUL - Perdana Library

AN APPRECIATION
(Dato Sir Alexander Oppenheim P.M.N., O.B.F.,
PH.D. (Chicago) D.SC. (OXON) F.R.s. ED.)
The general political awakening in South East Asia which
followed the Second World War stimulated politics in Malaya,
culminating in the formation of the UMNO/MCA/MIC Alliance.
Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-haj was the prime moving
force in creating this alliance which contrary to a great deal
of public opinion did not occur of its own free will.
The Tunku was first elected President of UMNO in 1951
and it was his outstanding ability which was responsible for
the formation of the Alliance Party. The Tunku has reached
his prominent place in world politics not through fiery oratory
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